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Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb, 2004. James Hansen—Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Scientific American, Vol. 290, Number 3, March. 

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FIGURE 17.18 Temperature increase on Earth s surface from 1880 to 1996. Zero represents the average temperature for the years 1951-1980. (Source NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.)... 

Michael Mishchenko, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA crmim giss.nasa.gov... 

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Robert Jastrow, the head of NASA s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, called this the most powerful evidence for the existence of God ever to come out of science. Other amazing parameters abound. If all of the stars in the universe were heavier than three solar masses, they would live for only about 500 million years, and life would not have time to evolve beyond primitive bacteria. Stephen Hawking has estimated that if the rate of the universe s expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed.The universe must live for billions of years to permit time for intelligent life to evolve. On the other hand, the universe might have expanded so rapidly that protons and electrons never united to make hydrogen atoms. 

There is now no time left. The train has left the station. The climate is warming. The best we can do now is minimize the impact. The only resolution is for humans to move to a fundamentally different energy pathway within a decade, according to James Hansen, director of NASA s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a leading... 

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