Arizona Daily Star: Professsor in a sweat over global warming

[tex-wyo-dem]

Professsor in a sweat over global warming
By Dan Sorenson
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.23.2007

If you're looking for a rosy view of global warming, that tough, smiling grandfather over at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory isn't your guy.

Robert G. Strom, 73, is technically retired. He's a professor emeritus at the laboratory, but he's active on the science team for NASA's Messenger orbiter, due in the outskirts of Mercury next January.

He has devoted most of his career to other planets, most notably Mercury. But about five years ago, he aimed his critical-thinking skills at Earth and global warming.

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The doomsday report on global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, released earlier this month, said the international panel of scientists had a confidence level of 90 percent that global warming was being caused by humans.

The report didn't surprise Strom. He already was deep into a book for laymen on global warming, to be released next month: "Hot House: Global Climate Change and the Human Condition" (Springer, New York, 2007, $27.50).

He's not pulling any punches.

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Strom said, "Humans are responsible 100 percent, not just greater than 90 percent" (the panel's shocking finding).



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