BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 25, 2021
it was 33 years ago, in 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen went on record to warn Congress about climate change, its main causes and its likely effects. Since that time, scientists’ warnings about a warming planet and changing “weird” weather have come true, even faster than they predicted. The scientists have delivered. What has Congress done? Not much. They have failed to take action to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses we release into the atmosphere. Solutions to the problem are available but nature’s clock is ticking and the time remaining to head off catastrophic consequences is limited. ~ Bill Lee, Waterville