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Heated Debate Over a Hot Theory |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Kenneth Green |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 3,107 Words, 20,426 Characters |
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On the second day of the summer of 1988, when temperatures in Washington, D.C., had already reached a blistering 101*F, James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, offered an explanation that would earn him the title of "father of climate change." In a later recounting of that day's testimony before the U.S. Senate committee on energy and natural resources, Hansen noted: "I said three things. The first was that I believed Earth was getting warmer, and I could say that with 99 percent confidence. The second was that with a high degree of confidence we could associate the warming and the greenhouse effect. The third was that in our climate model, by the late 1980s and early '90s, there's already a noticeable increase in the frequency of drought."
Subsequ...
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...out Global Warming, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Michael Parsons, Global Warming: The Truth Behind the Myth, Insight Books, Plenum Press, New York, 1995.
Kenneth Green studies climate change policy and directs the Environmental Program at Reason Public Policy Institute (www.rppi.org), a nonprofit policy-research organization headquartered in Los Angeles.
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