Senator Whitehouse: "It May Be Too Late"

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the way that mainstream climate scientists have been handling the situation, changing the baseline from 1780 to early 1800's to mid 1800's to 1880-1920, now saying that we need an average over a decade, these tactics don't seem helpful to me. I've been following anthropogenic climate change since Dr Hansen testified before Congress in 1988. He seemed at least as concerned then as most climate scientists today. Continually raising the baseline so that we never hit 1.5°C has not been a good strategy, in my opinion.

I think that scientists need to say that we have lost the ability to save x (give specific examples) but that we still can save x (give specific examples), but only if we lower fossil fuel emissions, and decrease livestock emissions.