Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science,Technology and Environmental Policyat the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies...
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We do have a little time, but not much. . . . If we don't get a serious program in place for the long term in this second post-Kyoto phase, we will simply not make it and we will be crossing limits which will basically produce impacts that are unacceptable.
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We care about global warming, because it's going to remake the face of the Earth. We are heading to a completely different world than the one we're used to.
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Mr. Nelson is certainly cooperating with the authorities. He wants to do whatever he can to help out.
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One point stands out above all others, and that is that a modest global warming may put Earth in the danger zone for a major sea-level rise.
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I find these results troubling, disturbing, scary. Because despite the uncertainties, we're playing dice with the whole Earth here.
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We see very high vulnerability on the Jersey coast. These things are not going to happen tomorrow. It gradually unfolds over the course of the 21st century. But we will be spending ever-increasing amounts defending the coast.
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He got involved with some people who weren't so good, let's say, and he ended up, in the course of doing business, he ended up paying finders' fees and/or commissions to people who were not so good.
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They'll either have to provide a heck of a lot of beach replenishment or build something harder, like a sea wall,
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I cannot think of a more heinous and egregious act.
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Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.
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The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.
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If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.
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A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.
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The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States.