Warming: Public misled?

Warming: Public misled?

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Delaware - Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, Nasa's top climate scientist says.

"We've already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," James Hansen, 67, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told AFP here.

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I dunno how many of us would realize how much trouble we have already made but then it really won't matter what is responsible for causing our final demise. The fact is that we all of us, the predominant life form on this planet, are over-growing and consuming all the nutrients, oxygen, water available and adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Someday we will drown suffocate in our own waste and by products. Humans cannot be entrusted with the care of such a beautiful and fragile thing as the planet Earth.

Since the U.S. contributes 3-4 times the amount of atmospheric CO2 of any other country, U.S. involvement in change is critical and lets hope they will find some solution to control the damage.

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