Top Climate Scientist: Today’s Leaders Will ‘Determine the Fate of Humanity’

Leading U.S. climate scientist James Hansen’s paper, authored with several former NASA colleagues, warns that Earth’s climate-regulating systems may be more sensitive to higher levels of carbon than scientists previously suspected.

They also calculated the atmospheric changes that would be produced by burning off the estimated stock of Earth’s fossil fuel reserves, finding that it would result in a planetary apocalypse.

Top Climate Scientist: Today’s Leaders Will ‘Determine the Fate of Humanity’