t r u t h o u t | Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

Of course, Republicans will use this 1% uncertainty rating as saying there is still a question as to whether global warming is occurring or not.  Those people don't understand what scientific proof is.  1% uncertainty is the same as saying that there virtually no doubt about it.  I've haven't seen a 99% certainty in any science since 1+1=2 was stated a proved theory.  Still it is only a theory and it continues to be tested and the more it is tested and stands up to scrutiny, the closer and closer it gets to that 100% certainty.  There is no such thing as 100% certainty in science.  As with calculus you can only approach certainty to an nth degree.
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James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer. Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable. Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. In an interview with the Guardian he said: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime."

t r u t h o u t | Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes