Three decades after a top climate scientist warned Congress of the dangers of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions keep rising and so do global temperatures.
By Paul Bledsoe
Mr. Bledsoe lectures on environmental policy at American University.
Firefighters lighting backfire while battling the Delta Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., in September.CreditNoah Berger/Associated Press
Thirty years ago, a NASA scientist, James Hansen, told lawmakers at a Senate hearing that “global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause-and-effect relationship with the greenhouse effect.” He added that there “is only 1 percent chance of accidental warming of this magnitude.”
By that, he meant that humans were responsible.
His testimony made headlines around the United States and the world…
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