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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

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‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

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