When our children and grandchildren look back at the history of human-made climate change, this year and next will be seen as the turning point at which the futility of governments in dealing with climate change was finally exposed, he said.
After what was probably the hottest July in 120,000 years, Hansen, warned that the world was moving towards a new climate frontier with temperatures higher than at any point over the past million years.
It has taken almost 30 years for world leaders to acknowledge that fossil fuels are to blame for the climate crisis, yet this year's United Nations Cop28 summit in Dubai ended with a limp and vague call for a transition away from them, even as evidence grows that the world is already heating to dangerous levels.
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