Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries

A massive boulder on a coastal ridge in North Eleuthera, the Bahamas. A new research paper claims it was most likely moved there by powerful storms during the last warm period of Earth history, 120,000 years ago, and warns that such stormy conditions could recur because of human emissions of greenhouse gases.CreditCharles Ommanney/The Washington Post, via Getty Images

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The by-now-celebrated paper circulated last year by James Hansen and 17 others, predicting multi-meter sea level rise within decades is now accepted.

Excellent New York Times report on that. Read more…