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James Hansen is no less a heroic figure, but this time he derives no satisfaction from being vindicated by empiricism.

Over the last decade, he has persevered and his conclusions, corroborated now by hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies, firmly show that strange changes are accelerating in our atmosphere.

During the same amount of time, the credibility of the denialists has only grown thinner; as thin, in fact, as those delicate layers of light-permeable gaseous elements that delineate the difference between life on Earth and the spartaness of Mars.

Every day in the morning newspapers there are headlines chronicling the hottest heat waves and the warmest winters ever recorded, melting icecaps, bigger more violent storms, and huge payouts to clean up the messes of "natural" disasters.

It's true, climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon and some locales may actually get cooler as the planet heats up, but never has the onset of an episode like this one raced forward with increasing speed, experts say, and they have no real notion of how it...

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