Scientist: 'We're toast' without action on global warming

[Chalupa]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels.

He said Earth's atmosphere can stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for only a couple more decades without changes such as mass extinction, ecosystem collapse and dramatic sea level rises.

"We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," said Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science. "This is the last chance."

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[BERIGAN]

Some background info on James Hansen...

http://www.dailytech.com/NASA%20James%20Ha...article9061.htm

[Jazzmoose]

Not to support one side or the other, but that article seemed to be fairly interesting until I saw at the bottom that it was from Investors Business Daily, a newspaper that makes the WSJ editorial page look like it's run by radicals from the leftwing fringe...