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Climate Scientist Oppenheimer: Don't Be Fooled by Cooling Temps, Earth Still Heating Up

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2010 · News & Politics

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"Not every decade is going to be necessarily warmer than the decade before," says climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer. He labels the 2010s as simply a relative "cooling decade," anticipating an increase of up to 7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

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How to combat climate change is a highly politicized issue worldwide. For many, the arguments surrounding global warming and the ways to combat it can be convoluted and confusing.

Delivering the first of the Sydney Ideas lectures for 2010, world-renowned climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer outlines the evidence for global warming and explains how it was gathered. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Michael Oppenheimer is a Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was the Lead Author on the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2001 and 2007 respectively.

Before joining the faculty at Princeton, he spent 20 years as chief scientist at The Environmental Defense Fund.

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