Can Generation Hot Avoid Its Fate?

A DADDY’S DAY CARE

The new report released by the IPCC has provoked a host of emotions for one journalist and father with the exception of one: despair. Only hope for his daughter and the rest of Generation Hot can deliver us from crisis and into recovery and rejuvenation.

Published Apr. 5 2014 5:45AM EDT

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We can’t say they didn’t warn us.

The report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week is only the latest and most dire in a string of scientific declarations leading back to 1988, when NASA scientist James Hansen’s landmark testimony to the United States Senate put...

Mark Hertsgaard

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Can Generation Hot Avoid Its Fate?

The new report released by the IPCC has provoked a host of emotions for one journalist and father with the exception of one: despair. Only hope for his daughter and the rest of Generation Hot can deliver us from crisis and into recovery and rejuvenation.

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Mark Hertsgaard