Talk about being clear and present. This is clearly the most dangerous situation presently before us.
Here is a link to a hair-raising article I had to read three times to assure myself I was really reading what I thought I was reading.
Jim Hansen, Bush's top climate modeller at NASA and considered by some to be one of the most creative and productive scientists in the world ,says the following:
Unless we get a grip on carbon dioxide emissions within the next ten years the temperature of this planet Earth will rise one degree WHICH IS WARMER THAN IT'S BEEN IN 500,000 YEARS. Go back and count the zeroes. That's a half a million years.
