GreenTech Geek: Tea Leaves for the Reading

Sometimes my job as GreenTech Geek -- bringer of news, information and opinions about the environment, sustainability, and technology -- is just a little too easy. Like today. Why? Because all I have to do is present  two stories from two different -- and both extremely unlikely -- sources that have appeared over the last few days. They begin to paint a picture that even the hardiest of climate change skeptics will have trouble disregarding. 

Here goes ... after the jump ...

Richard A. Muller, physics professor
at the University of California, Berkeley

First up is this Op Ed in the New York Times from a couple weekends ago, in which a high-profile climate change skeptic -- UC Berkeley physics professor Richard A. Muller (pictured above) -- does a complete 180 on the subject, based on close examination of new evidence.

James Hansen, Director, NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies

OK, ready for the second story? Bear in mind, this appeared today in my hometown newspaper -- one of the most conservative major dailies in the United States -- the UT San Diego. It's a straightforward news article in which Richard Hansen, NASA's Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, basically says we're heading toward a lot more trouble than even some climate change alarmists have projected.

There, my job is done here (for this week).

Until next week ...

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