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...Hansen: Not a sea change, but they are beginning to wake up, and this coincides with the science becoming a lot clearer in the past five or six years...
...Hansen: Not really, but not enough thought was given to the potential for large sea level changes, probably because of the assumption that it takes the ice sheets millennia to respond. I have argued the importance of sea level and I think that realization is catching on. I do think, on the other hand, that many scientists are spending too much time trying to figure out the effects of possible changes in the ocean's circulation. Europe, and the U.S., will not freeze over or get colder if the Atlantic circulation slows down. Global warming overwhelms the modest effects...
...Hansen: We have to first level out emissions, then get them to start to decline. By the end of the century we could reduce emissions by perhaps 70% so that atmospheric CO2 would stabilize...
...Hansen: Incredibly, there are still staunch deniers who would prefer to listen to a science fiction writer [Michael Crichton, author of "State of Fear," which challenges global warming science] rather than a real scientist. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the strongest deniers among the politicians have connections to the fossil fuel industry...
...Hansen: We can't give up, no matter what the odds look like. Another three years of business as usual will make it much harder to avoid large changes...