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Enough of the half-measures

by Tom Raftery on June 5, 2009 · 76 comments

in climate change

I’m worried. I’m very worried.
The recent report by MIT on Climate Change was the
most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century
It found that
without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago [...]

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John Holdren on Global Climatic Disruption

by Tom Raftery on January 19, 2009 · 65 comments

in climate change

John Holdren has been appointed by Barack Obama as as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
From his bio on Wikipedia
Holdren earned a bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1965 and [...]

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