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NASA has drastically underestimated the severity of Global Warming. They now have stated that in 10 years, the tipping point will be upon us. Even additional "moderate” greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past the "tipping points" and result in critically "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.

Future forecasts, once the earth has been pushed into a critical state will include "increasingly rapid sea-level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones," according to the NASA announcement.

In regards to the new research paper, NASA has stated that they are endorsing a science that places considerable more measures on the urgency for the need on reducing emissions. This will help to avoid "disastrous effects" of global warming. The measures will be boosted to counter the underestimate in the earlier reports from the world's scientists coordinated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The new NASA release emphasizes the danger of "strong amplifying feedbacks" pushing Earth past "dangerous tipping points."

Scientists have been warning for several years that such tipping points are the greatest threat from man-made global warming — and what makes it potentially catastrophic for civilization.

As the tipping points pass, "there is an acceleration, potentially uncontrollable, of emissions of vast natural stores of greenhouse gas," according to Hansen, who reviewed the study for ABC News today.

Hansen explains that dangerous feedback loops are being tracked in various regions of the planet.

Many studies have reported feedback loops already observed in thawing tundra, sea beds and drying forests.

Hansen also points out that dark — and therefore heat-absorbing — forests are now expanding toward the Arctic, replacing lighter-colored areas such as tundra and snow cover.

The study says that "only moderate additional climate forcing (which would mean only moderate additional warming from such emissions) is likely to set in motion the disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet" and is dubbed WAIS by polar scientists.

Many scientists say a disintegration of WAIS would mean catastrophically rapid sea-level rise.

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