German Scientist Warns Climate Change Accelerating

Deutsche Welle | Dec. 30, 2008 (Interview)
The earth is heating up faster than many realize

The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects and acts as an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate-change issues.

Schellnhuber warns that previous predictions about climate change and its catastrophic effects were too cautious and optimistic. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 30, 2008

The interview suggests current climate change models are too conservative. The short interview does not go into great detail, but presents the overall message. The linked article includes Schellnhuber as one author, and presents plenty of detail.

http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/schellnhuber08-pnas.pdf is the article I attempted to link, but it seems the NT link failed here.

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