We Have Four Years to Save Ourselves from Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

Carbon pollution is rapidly forcing the climate back to a state last seen in the Eocene Epoch, when there was no ice on the poles, warned James Anderson, the Harvard scientist known for linking CFCs to erosion of the Ozone Layer. Shutterstock

The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn’t been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. The moral issue

Harvard Professor James Anderson, best known for his work linking chlorofluorocarbons to the Ozone Hole, warned about the irreversibility of climate change in an appearance Thursday at the University of Chicago.

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