Climate Scientist Sees Early Warnings Confirmed

Christopher Schrader writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung (28.9.2006) about the climate researcher James Hansen of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies who published a recent review on climate change. According to Hansen global average temperatures rise now at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius a decade. That's roughly according to Hansen's earlier predictions that were criticized heavily by novelist Michael Crichton in his book State of Fear. Hence, commentators regard Hansen's paper in first line as a rebuttal of Crichton's attack on the integrity of Hansen.