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Article: Global warming?; Scientists don't have an agenda, just evidence.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 1, 1996
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In the midst of the long, stifling summer of 1988, NASA climate specialist Jim Hansen sat before a congressional committee and delivered a wake-up call. He said the months-long drought that was cooking the Midwest might well be caused by global warming and be indicative of what could happen with increasing frequency in the future.
Hansen then went one bold step further, saying, "The greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now."
Many of Hansen's scientific colleagues winced at his assertion. Although most knew that what he said was probably true, a public declaration seemed premature, even dangerous. Most scientists, especially ...