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Spotlight May 28, 2001 Mario Molina, Photo by Judy Sylwester, HMS Media Services Nobelist Molina Urges Action on Global Warming Society needs to take action now to protect the environment from the threat of global warming, said MIT professor Mario Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, at the A. Clifford Barger Lecture on May 17. Molina recounted a precedent of global action to protect the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere based on research by him and other atmospheric scientists. Though climate change science is more complicated and less mature than ozone chemistry, he said, "The correct question is not, do we know enough to do something, but do we know enough to make a strong case that nothing will happen" if no action is taken?

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