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PIERREHUMBERT

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Raymond Pierrehumbert: "We have seen only a tiny part of the warming that we are eventually going to get. We haven't even seen the warming that goes along with the CO2 we've already put into the atmosphere."


Climate scientist warns of underestimated global warming forecasts

by Charles Berret
April 28, 2009


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Climate neglect - consider the costs

University of Chicago climate scientist Raymond Pierrehumbert says that humans have moved well beyond the natural swings of global warming in the environment. We have "shocked the system" and "thrown it way out of equilibrium," he said during a recent presentation on his home turf of Evanston. Click the link for a slideshow with highlights of his talk.