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"The Mainau Declaration": 30 Nobel Laureates Urge Action on Climate Change. By Susanne Dambeck, Lindau-Nobel.org, 3/7/2015. All Nobel Laureates discussing the declaration in Lindau on Thursday morning agree unanimously that there is overwhelmingevidence that emissions of greenhouse gases cause global warming. “There might be some uncertainties left,” concedes Chu. “It’s like in the 1950s when people didn’t know what happened if you smoked one pack of cigarettes per day – but the lung cancer rate was rising so rapidly that something had to be done.” Nowadays we can calculate the cancer risk of smoking quite precisely. “But do we want to wait fifty years until we know what will happen with global warming?”, he asks. Chu adds: “You don’t wait until your house is on fire before you take out fire insurance.”