Global warming truth telling

Climate Progress asks:

Is the financial crisis more dire than the climate crisis?

Not even close. "If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment." So warned IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri last fall when the IPCC released its major multi-year report synthesizing our understanding of climate science. And remember Pachauri was handpicked by the Bush administration to replace the “alarmist” Bob Watson. It’s the facts that make scientists alarmists, not their politics...

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H/t Gerry Canavan.