Fifteen alleged "top climate scientists" suggest that if the Keystone Pipeline is built, the weather will be out of our children's control; they also "say categorically that this pipeline is not in the nation's, or the planet's best interest"

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15 top climate scientists just sent a letter to the Senate asking them to reject the Keystone XL pipeline: bit.ly/xWLQi1 #noKXL

Top climate scientists warn Congress over Keystone XL | 350.org

Adding this on top of conventional fossil fuels will leave our children and grandchildren a climate system with consequences that are out of their control. It makes no sense to build a pipeline that would dramatically increase exploitation of this resource.

...We can say categorically that this pipeline is not in the nation's, or the planet's best interest.
Sincerely,

James Hansen, Research Scientist, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

John Abraham, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas

Jason Box, Associate Professor, Department of Geography Atmospheric Sciences Program, Researcher at Byrd Polar Research CenterThe Ohio State University

Ken Caldeira, Senior Scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution

Peter Gleick, President and Co-founder Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security

Richard A. Houghton, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

Ralph Keeling, Director, Scripps CO2 Program Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs Climate Institute

Michael E. Mann, Professor of Meteorology Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University

James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University

Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago

Steve Running, Professor of Ecology, Director of Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana

Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

George M. Woodwell, Founder, Director Emeritus, and Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : John P. Abraham, Ph.D.

Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota