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climatologist James Hansen
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941) heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He has held this position since 1981. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.
After graduate school, Hansen continued his work with radiative transfer models, attempting to understand the Venusian atmosphere. Later he applied and refined these models to understand the Earth's atmosphere, in particular, the effects that aerosols and trace gases have on Earth's climate. Hansen's development and use of global climate models has contributed to the further understanding of the Earth's climate.
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology, his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in 1988 that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years, Hansen has become an activist for action to mitigate the effects of climate change, which on a few occasions has led to his arrest.
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James Hansen, head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, being arrested for protesting against tar sand oil
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Journal of the San Juan Islands
January 12, 2018
Citizens' Climate Lobby itself has 90,000 supporters — ordinary Americans like you and me — and is doubling in size each year. Isn't it worth a few hours of your time each month to add your voice to theirs? Dr. James Hansen has said that, when it comes to climate action, “there is no more effective stepÃÂ ...
Nasdaq
January 12, 2018
The most prominent current example is the "children's" climate lawsuit ( Juliana v U.S. ): A group of kids, including "future generations, through their guardian Dr. James Hansen," claim that the government's actions ... (Merely look at NASA's time-lapse photo of the earth's greening over the last 30-plus years.)ÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 10, 2018
In 2017, scientists for the first time spelled out what it will take for civilization to survive global warming. Simply ending the use of fossil fuels isn't going to do it; we must also extract billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and store it somewhere forever. The world has been edgingÃÂ ...
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
January 9, 2018
It is awful advice. Professor James Hansen began the current campaign for political action to fight climate change by telling a simple story to the US Senate in 1988. After thirty years of telling simple stories, activists have almost nothing to show for their vast investment of money, effort, and political capital.
Deutsche Welle
January 9, 2018
The 21 plaintiffs, who are between 10 and 21 years old, and come from all over the US, filed the climate change lawsuit together with their attorneys and climate scientist James Hansen in 2015. All the kids and teenagers in the plaintiff group have been personally impacted by climate change. Some of themÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 7, 2018
Among the advocates of so-called regenerative agriculture is the climate scientist and activist James Hansen, lead author of a paper published in July that calls for the adoption of “steps to improve soil fertility and increase its carbon content” to ward off “deleterious climate impacts.” Rattan Lal, the director ofÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 29, 2017
Climate expert James Hansen appeared at a November conference in Germany on environmental issues with his granddaughter, Sophie Kivlehan, who is ... But 21 young Americans ― including the granddaughter of former NASA scientist James Hansen ― are doing just that. The reason? Climate change.
The Heartland Institute
December 21, 2017
In 1988 Wirth was in a position to jump-start the climate alarm. He worked with colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to organize and orchestrate a June 23, 1988 hearing where the lead witness would be Dr. James Hansen, then the head of the Goddard Institute for SpaceÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 17, 2017
... I had interviewed NASA scientist James Hansen, the godfather of climate change science, who told me that if nothing was done to slow the burning of fossil fuels, sea levels could be as much as ten feet higher by the end of the century. At the time, I didn't grasp the full implications of this. After Sandy, I did.
Brooklyn Rail
December 13, 2017
Even a scientist like James Hansen, who understands the catastrophic path that the earth climate is following because of continuous greenhouse emissions, assumes that economic growth, with increasing access to these goods, cannot be renounced. Indeed, for Hansen, abundant nuclear energy isÃÂ ...
Times-Enterprise
December 31, 1999
Gore said the Arctic would be ice free by 2014 and the guy Democrats call a “prophet,” James Hansen, former director of NASA's Godard Institute for Space ... Obviously, climate alarmists have the same answer for every weather pattern, so the rest of us normal folks should forget them and focus on reality.
International Policy Digest
December 31, 1999
According to James Hansen, NASA's former chief climate scientist, “Burning all fossil fuels would create a different planet than the one that humanity knows. The palaeoclimate record and ongoing climate change make it clear that the climate system would be pushed beyond tipping points, setting in motionÃÂ ...
New York YIMBY
December 29, 2017
Vague dates in the future have been a problem in the debate surrounding climate change, and in 2011, critics pointed to the research of Dr. James Hansen as hyperbole. But one year later, when Breezy Point burned to the ground and the West Side Highway was indeed underwater, the prediction did notÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 29, 2017
Climate expert James Hansen appeared at a November conference in Germany on environmental issues with his granddaughter, Sophie Kivlehan, who is ... But 21 young Americans ― including the granddaughter of former NASA scientist James Hansen ― are doing just that. The reason? Climate change.
HuffPost
December 28, 2017
I came to Texas in January 2013 driven by a tremendous sense of urgency. Eminent climate scientist Dr. James Hansen had warned that if the tar sands in Canada were extracted and ignited, it would be “game over” for our future. The Keystone XL Pipeline was being constructed specifically to exploitÃÂ ...
Bend Bulletin
December 28, 2017
While we have come to expect a lack of candor from climate alarmists, Michael Mann's guest column on Oct. 24 was unprecedented in its deception and ... ice cores that show all of the previous warm periods were warmer than today (Greek, Roman and Medieval)? Even James Hansen acknowledges this!
The Heartland Institute
December 20, 2017
In 1988 Wirth was in a position to jump-start the climate alarm. He worked with colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to organize and orchestrate a June 23, 1988 hearing where the lead witness would be Dr. James Hansen, then the head of the Goddard Institute for SpaceÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 17, 2017
Climate expert and activist James Hansen and his granddaughter Sophie Kivlehan. Photograph: ... It was Hansen's congressional testimony as director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the sweltering summer of 1988 that elevated global warming from simmering concern to boiling reality.
Brooklyn Rail
December 13, 2017
Even a scientist like James Hansen, who understands the catastrophic path that the earth climate is following because of continuous greenhouse emissions, assumes that economic growth, with increasing access to these goods, cannot be renounced. Indeed, for Hansen, abundant nuclear energy isÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 1, 2017
A strong theme running through the discussions with clean technology entrepreneurs was that the Trump administration's position on climate change .... and said his sole endorsement so far came from James Hansen, the former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies who is a supporter ofÃÂ ...
CityMetric
November 30, 2017
These are the main findings of research published earlier this year in Earth System Dynamics, conducted by an international team led by US climate scientist James Hansen, previously the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The Paris Agreement in 2015 saw the international communityÃÂ ...
National Geographic
November 7, 2017
Prominent climate scientist James Hansen has a message for world leaders gathering in Germany for the United Nations conference on global warming. ... Hansen, a former NASA scientist who warned Congress about the dangers of climate change in 1988, says global warming of 2ðC, or even 1.5ðC,à...
Seattle Times
October 2, 2017
Brian credits Dr. James Hansen, the renowned climatologist, for first bringing the issue of climate change to their attention, and they wereÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
October 1, 2017
Smith has used the committee to attack and subpoena climate ... in climate studies; James Hansen, former head of the NASA Goddard InstituteÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 21, 2017
In 1988, when the scientist James Hansen told a senate committee that it was ... A lot of work has been done since to understand why climateÃÂ ...
The Westerly Sun
September 20, 2017
The first scientist to sound the alarm was Dr. James Hansen of NASA. In 1988 he testified in front of the United States Congress that globalÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
September 18, 2017
Rebuttal: Climate change is a threat to life, liberty, and property .... One of the 16 experts offering evidence in support of our lawsuit is James Hansen, who ... He's also the immediate past director of the NASA Goddard InstituteÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 18, 2017
Renowned Nasa climate scientist James Hansen made even better global warming predictions in 1981 and 1988, and the IPCC improvedÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
September 12, 2017
I began covering energy and climate change in 1990, shortly after ... and interviewed influential climate scientists like NASA's James Hansen.
Mother Jones
September 12, 2017
The effects of this new phase in our new climate reality reach far beyond ... In his 2009 memoir, climate scientist James Hansen warned of theÃÂ ...
The Nation.
September 6, 2017
And how long before we hold the ultimate authors of such climate ... starting with NASA scientist James Hansen's landmark 1988 SenateÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
August 31, 2017
James Hansen Hails Landmark Youth Climate Lawsuit: We Can't ... former top climate scientist at NASA and current director at Climate .... From 1981 to 2013, he was the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
EcoWatch
August 30, 2017
Dr. James Hansen has been called the "father of climate change ... the top climate scientist at NASA, where he headed the Goddard Institute forÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
August 30, 2017
Dr. James Hansen has been called the "father of climate change ... he was the top climate scientist at NASA, where he headed the GoddardÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 29, 2017
But it's time to shed some of the fussy over-precision about the relationship between climate change and weather. James Hansen, the eminentÃÂ ...
AlterNet
August 25, 2017
Before the Paris talks even began, climate scientists were predicting that ... the former NASA climatologist James Hansen warned that if we didÃÂ ...
Online Athens
August 25, 2017
The three finalists who received a $10,000 honorable mention were James Hansen, a NASA employee recognized as a pioneer of climateÃÂ ...
The Laconia Daily Sun
August 25, 2017
He does not refer to experts like James Hansen and Bill McKibben, who know much more about climate change than he does. Goldberg knowsÃÂ ...
Monterey County Herald
August 13, 2017
So read a recent headline in The Times, highlighting a decade-by-decade statistical analysis by climate expert James Hansen. “Most summersÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
August 13, 2017
By James Hansen and Sophie Kivlehan August 14, 2017 ... The reality and intergenerational nature of human-made climate change areÃÂ ...
GreenBiz
August 8, 2017
Climate change is running a $535 trillion debt ... scientist James Hansen, previously director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
ATTN:
July 28, 2017
In a piece posted on Friday, The New York Times also provides a graph based on the findings of retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen.
New York Times
July 28, 2017
The chart above, based on data from James Hansen, a retired NASA climate scientist and professor at Columbia University, shows howÃÂ ...
TIME
July 27, 2017
But, in the same time period, climate change has evolved from a ... And, in widely televised 1988 testimony, NASA scientist James Hansen wentÃÂ ...
EcoWatch
December 31, 1999
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is the granddaughter of NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen. "In my opinion, this lawsuit is madeÃÂ ...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
December 31, 1999
James Hansen, the climate scientist who brought these issues to the attention of Congress in the 1980s, says that we need to both drasticallyÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
As climate change impacts worsen and become more expensive to address, ... NASA scientist James Hansen sounded the alarm about climateÃÂ ...
CleanTechnica
December 31, 1999
James Hansen is the former NASA scientist who has been trying for ... of the imminent danger posed by climate change and global warming.
AmericaJR.com (blog)
March 23, 2017
He went on to launch 350.org, a global climate organizing effort named after climate scientist James Hansen's contention that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide above 350 parts per million would be unsafe for humanity and the planet ...
Northside Sun
March 22, 2017
"Global change" was a popular term from that time until 1988, when global warming became the preferred description after James Hansen of NASA testified to Congress that, "Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a high degree ofÃÂ ...
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