NRDC junk scientist George Woodwell: CO2-induced bad weather is "the most profound crisis confronting this nation...continents will bake and flood, chaos will reign"

Opinion: The climate crisis needs Obama's attention — The Daily Climate

...No one else can warn society what we risk, or explain how this weird, unpredictable, extreme weather is just a foretaste of what is to come.
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Let's be clear about the urgency: Obama is the last president who will have an opportunity to deflect a first-class disaster
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The global addiction to fossil fuels has been allowed to run its course beyond the limits of safety, to the moment when the climatic change is tipping beyond the point of reversibility. Past that point, the feedbacks will be in control and the Earth will warm by many degrees despite our attempts to mitigate the process. The seas will rise, continents will bake and flood, chaos will reign. The timing for these changes is not the indefinite future. It is now, today, conspicuous, and it is the next decades and the lifetimes of people now living.
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On the most important scientific issue of our generation, Obama gave the day, and possibly the world, to the Republicans and their congressional and corporate friends.
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George Woodwell is a founding trustee and distinguished scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and emeritus founder and director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts.