The child environmental activist of the 1990s
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The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
The world is heating up, and there's not much doubt it will continue to heat up until some fairly urgent action is taken by the industrialized world. Professor james hanson had actually begun his career looking at climates millions of miles from i thought, what could be more exciting than studying what the clouds of venus are made of? But in the late 19 seventies, we realized the earth's atmosphere is changing, which makes the earth a more interesting planet than the others. By 19 81, james and six other nassau scientists had published their first paper setting out the global warming hypothesis. At first, their studies had been motivated by pure scientific curiosity about the workings of the climate
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