Nobel Prize winner sounds alarm on climate change

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arly in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina was pulled into seemingly obscure research about strange chemicals being spewed into the atmosphere. Within a year, he had helped discover a global environmental emergency, work that would ultimately win a Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize winner, Mario Molina - it's
totally unacceptable for
humanity not to act on climate change.

Now, at 70, Dr. Molina is trying to awaken the public to an even bigger risk. He spearheaded a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, which released a stark report Tuesday on global warming.

The report warns that the effects of human emissions of heat-trapping gases are already being felt, that the ultimate consequences could be dire, and that the window to do something about it is closing.

Read The New York Times story - “Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate.”

Tweet from Bill McKibben alerts us, again, to ongoing challenges

The conversation about climate change being human-induced and a threat to humanity is over.

Yet the evidence illustrating this world-changing reality continues to pour in.

The latest comes from 70-year-old scientist and Nobel Prize winner, Mario J. Molina, who won that international coveted award for his understanding of the ozone hole and why it was happening.

Now, Mr Molina is trying to alert the public to an even bigger risk, global climate change.

A story published today in the New York Times headed: “Scientists sound the alarm on climate” quoting Dr Molina the ultimate consequences of climate change could be “dire” and the window to do something about is closing.

In a tweet alerting people to the story, an advocate for climate change action, Bill McKibben, urged those who know people who don’t care about climate to maybe pass onto them this NYT piece: a call to action from scientists.