If we look at the history of the Earth, warming of more than one degree will surely make West Antarctic ice sheet unstable, and we will get sea level rise much more than one-and-a-half feet or three feet.
Hansen warns about the potential for significant sea level rise due to climate change.
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We are on a warming planet, the climate is destabilizing, we are getting in trouble and people are dying.
The Obama administration is being forced into a political compromise. It has sacrificed a strong position on mountaintop removal in order to ensure the support of coal-state legislators for a climate bill.
With regard to China and India and the likelihood that they would cooperate, it should be pointed out they will suffer more from climate change than we will.
I think everyone hopes that increased energy efficiency--and that would be encouraged by a higher price on carbon emissions, and renewable energies--could do the job.
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