Scientists warn of perilous sea level rise

A group of six U.S. scientists have warned in a published journal article that a U.N. panel on climate change underestimated the scale of sea-level increases from global warming this century. They have called for extensive efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases to help keep the climate within the range of the past one million years. Led by James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the group's participants include Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha and Gary Russell, also of the Goddard Institute, David Lea of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Mark Siddall of Columbia University in New York. See Earth is in 'imminent peril' - scientist warn.

A survey by Consumers International of 2,734 people in Britain and America reports that 9 out of 10 consumers distrust information about global warming from companies and governments, but 60% were found to trust scientists. From Earth 'is in imminent peril from sea level rise.'