There may still be some members of the White House team who are not completely convinced about climate change - but it is clear that the chief scientist is not one of them.
In a BBC interview, he said climate change was unequivocal, with mankind more than 90% likely to blame.
This is an explicit endorsement of the latest major review of climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Marburger said humanity would be in trouble if we did not stop increasing carbon emissions.
"The CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere and there's no end point, it just gets hotter and hotter, and so at some point it becomes unliveable," he said.
Professor Marburger said he wished he could stop US emissions right away, but that was obviously not possible.
And he rejected the target agreed by the European Union of stabilising temperature rise at or below 2C.
This might be overly pessimistic, he said; or it might be that we had already exceeded the world's ability to cope with our pollution.
The truth, he said, was that we just do not know what the 'safe' limit is.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6994760.stm
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I wonder if conservatives will now attack Bush...
Originally posted by mdhallMaybe this guy watched Owl Gore's Inconvenient Lie too many times....
There may still be some members of the White House team who are not completely convinced about climate change - but it is clear that the chief scientist is not one of them.
In a BBC interview, he said climate change was unequivocal, with mankind more than 90% likely to blame.
This is an explicit endorsement of the latest major review of climate science ...[text shortened]...
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I wonder if conservatives will now attack Bush...