Scientist Says Greenhouse Effect Is Setting In

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 24, 1988| Author: Michael Weisskopf | Copyright information

Man-made gases that trap solar heat, resulting in the so-called "greenhouse effect," have left the Earth warmer today than ever before and increase the likelihood of the type of drought now parching U.S. farmland, a NASA scientist told a congressional hearing yesterday.

James E. Hansen, chief of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said it is impossible to blame a specific heat wave or drought on the "greenhouse effect." But he said the record-breaking, global warming of the 1...

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