We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice … - Bill McKibben

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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Bill McKibben

We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted. "

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