Report Backs Global Warming; NASA Scientists' Ocean Study Yields 'Smoking Gun'

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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NASA scientists working with diving robots to measure ocean temperatures disclosed yesterday that they have found evidence they call a "smoking gun" in validating dire global warming predictions.

The study, published in yesterday's issue of the journal Science, was led by James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, who for decades has warned about the effects of global warming - a temperature rise resulting from trapped industry-based greenhouse gases.

The 15-member research team, comprising specialists from NASA, Columbia University and the Department of Energy, determined that for every square meter of surface …