Climate change policies failing, Nasa scientist warns Obama

Current approaches to deal with climate change are ineffectual, one of the world’s top climate scientists said today in a personal new year appeal to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on the urgent need to tackle global warming.

With less than three weeks to go until Obama’s inauguration, Prof James Hansen, head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, asked the recently appointed White House science adviser Prof John Holdren to pass the missive directly to the president-elect.

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by Amanda Meade -- 12/16/08

One cooler year “is not a sign that global warming has slowed.”

The weather phenomena, La Nina, has kept the Earth cooler this year, but not cool enough. Still in the top 10 since record keeping began in the 1800's and still the overall 9th warmest, all 9 occuring since 1998.

Obama had it right when he said the "time for denial is over."

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