Warming temperatures in the Arctic are being hailed as a signal of the urgency of climate change by one of the earliest proponents of the concept, citing the region’s melting ice as an example of the devastations in store if immediate action is not taken. James Hansen, head of Goddard Institute of Space Sciences, testified to Congress just Monday that if drastic measures are not employed the planet will see shocking changes coming in just the next ten to twenty years.

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