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    Jim Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

    Susan Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NOAA

    Wallace Broecker, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

    John Ashton, Founding Director, E3G

    Sander Van Der Leeuw, Global Institute of Sustainability, ASU

    Lawrence Krauss, moderator, Origins Project director, ASU


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