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Climate change top concern for 21st century The subject of climate change returned to the news in recent weeks with President Bush's proposal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton's Albert Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, recently spoke with Princeton University staff writer Steven Schultz about the mix of science and policy that underlies the climate change issue. Oppenheimer joined Princeton this semester after 20 years at Environmental Defense, a private, not-for-profit research and advocacy group. For the last five years, he was the organization's chief scientist and manager of its global/regional air program. He is the co-author of "Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect," published by Basic Books in 1990. Oppenheimer currently is teaching a graduate course, “Earth’s Atmosphere: Theory and Practice.” How concerned should we be about climate change? Climate change is the top environmental problem of the
21st century. If nothing is done to restrain the emissions that are causing
the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, then our children and
grandchildren are likely to experience a global warming unprecedented
in the history of civilization. The complete Q&A appears in the Weekly Bulletin. |
photo: Denise Applewhite |
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