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"Global warming is real, dangerous and ignored at great risk to the planet, a leading
environmentalist told an audience of about 250 at last week's inaugural MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture. Professor James Gustave Speth, Dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, urged the scientific community to make its case to the public, which remains unconvinced of the crisis despite decades of first-rate science and policy analysis, he said."
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"Climate-change research results and forecasts appear repeatedly in the scientific literature--some information "startling in its
significance"--but Speth said good climate science rarely reaches the public in a "forceful and meaningful way." Indeed, the mainstream American press persists in portraying global change as controversial and uncertain, he said."
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"There is now clear consensus among scientists that Earth's climate is being affected by the greenhouse gases generated by human activities. "We've seen these credible forecasts and credible
warnings coming from the scientific community for the better part of three decades," Speth said."
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"Given the lack of action at the federal level, he called for building a broad network of civic, scientific, environmental, religious, business and other communities to demand action and to take concrete steps to reduce emissions."


Source: MIT
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