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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Hansen A nice profile	David Roberts	12 Mar 2007	Gristmill
In the latest issue of Seed, Chris Mooney has a nice profile of legendary climate scientist James Hansen. Here's the nut: Yet Hansen isn't afraid of value judgments either. With increasing stridency, he has been articulating a very political, very moral premise: We can't take much more human-induced greenhouse warming if we want to preserve the planet in the state that we actually like. The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had originally un ...
Topics: James Hansen, climate science (all these topics)

Let's Call the Coal Thing Off Coal-bashing is hot new trend in Congress, science circles, and business world	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Mar 2007	Muckraker
Is King Coal about to be deposed? Climate scientists, key members of Congress, enviros, and the progressive wing of the business world are plotting a coup d'état. Regime change isn't likely to come soon, but this resistance movement could significantly alter the way the pollution-spewing sovereign wields its power. James Hansen. Photo: Arnold Adle/N ...
Topics: business, climate science, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Legendary climate scientist James Hansen says ... Guess	David Roberts	02 Mar 2007	Gristmill
... coal is the enemy of the human race!
Topics: climate science, coal, James Hansen (all these topics)

Greed got us into this mess Can greed get us out?	Kit Stolz	09 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Billionaire Richard Branson will announce today in London a prize of $25 million to the inventor of a device that effectively reduces greenhouse gas concentrations. Although the participants are under a media embargo, American climatologist James Hansen -- who will serve as a judge of the potential inventions, along with English scientist James Lovelock and Australian author Tim Flannery -- did discuss the topic of geoengineering a solution to global warming this week in f ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, Richard Branson (all these topics)

Sir Richard to the Rescue? Virgin founder Branson offers $25 million atmosphere-scrubbing prize		09 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Sir Richard to the Rescue? Virgin founder Branson offers $25 million atmosphere-scrubbing prize Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson is dangling $25 million for anyone who can figure out how to scrub vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The Virgin Earth Challenge -- which Branson announced today with the ubiquitous Al Gore by his side and which we're pretty sure was also ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, news, Richard Branson (all these topics)

The 'two sides' of the climate debate One of them is missing	David Roberts	05 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Bad Actors and their enablers have been pushing a particular spin on the climate debate: it has "two sides," the denialists and the alarmists. What can wise people above it all in the center do but roll their eyes at the grubbiness of it all? I'd like to introduce you to one side of the debate: Only 13 percent of congressional Republicans say they believe that human activity is causing global warming, compared to 95 percent of congressional Democrats. Mor ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, jackassery, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

IPCC: Now that we've all agreed, let's disagree Opinions on the Fourth Assessment Report	Kate Sheppard	02 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Ahem, Scientific American, a few days ago: Global warming skeptics are already gearing up to deconstruct the IPCC report, whatever its conclusions. The Fraser Institute -- a Canadian think tank devoted to denying climate change -- plans to release its own independent summary on February 5, and conservative Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has decried the politicization of climate change science. IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri's comment that he hoped the report 'will shock peop ...
Topics: climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

Sundance: A Q&A with Ross Gelbspan The heat is still on	Kate Sheppard	30 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Perhaps the most rewarding moment I witnessed at Sundance last week, after watching several post-screening Q&A's with Everything's Cool directors and stars, came on my last night in Utah. They'd just finished the film's only screening in Salt Lake City, and the packed house had nearly all stayed for the rap session, armed with questions about the future and what they can do. The theater managers had to ask them to wrap up the Q&A more than once, and even when t ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, interview, James Hansen, messaging, movies (all these topics)

An environmental A to Z for 2006 The year, alphabetically	Kit Stolz	29 Dec 2006	Gristmill
When it comes to global warming and the environment, everything seemed to change in 2006 -- at least in terms of public awareness. Here's an A-to-Z accounting of just some of those changes: A is for An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's scientific but surprisingly human documentary on the threat of climate change, which was expected to take in at most $6-7 million at the box office but went on to gross over $45 million, the biggest documentary of the year and the thi ...
Topics: Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, biofuels, energy, green living, James Hansen, Kyoto Protocol, lists, movies, politics (all these topics)

'Hansen has been wrong before' Maybe, but not about the climate!	Coby Beck	14 Dec 2006	Gristmill
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: In 1988, Hansen predicted dire warming over the next decade -- and he was off by 300%. Why in the world should we listen to the same doom and gloom from him today? Answer: While in some instances it is ignorant repetition of misinformation, at its source this story is a plain lie. In 1988, James Hansen testified before the U.S. Senate on the danger of anthropogenic global warming. During that t ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, James Hansen (all these topics)

He's making a list And I'm checking it. Twice.	Kate Sheppard	28 Nov 2006	Gristmill
People like to number things. They like to make lists. But I'm always impressed by the seeming randomness with which organizations decide to publish decisive lists. Why choose Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 to publish your top 100 green campaigners of all time? Why not?! Not quite at the end of the year and a little late for the turn of the millennium, the U.K. Environment Agency released their 'Earthshakers' list today, just in time for ... well, I'm sure it's in time for s ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Hansen, Lester Brown, lists (all these topics)

The price of a climatologist's soul Oceanographer Tim Barnet reveals the dollar amount, and other fascinating points	Kit Stolz	17 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Tim Barnett, a leading oceanographer who just retired from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, this Monday gave a talk called Future Climate of Earth: A Sneak Preview [PDF] to a convention of fire ecologists in San Diego. Barnett began by saying that he had seven grandkids, and he didn't like to think about the world they were going to inherit from us. He then went on to succinctly explain why we know global warming is human-caused.Most of the warming in the earth is sto ...
Topics: climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen (all these topics)

Anyone Got an Extra PFD? Earth nearing warmest point in a million years, may see rougher El Niños		26 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Anyone Got an Extra PFD? Earth nearing warmest point in a million years, may see rougher El Niños The earth is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years and is within 1.8 degrees of its highest average temperature in the past million years, scientists report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The global surface temperature has increased 0.36 degrees each of the last three decades, mor ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

NASA Lapso NASA deletes planet-protecting phrasing from mission statement		24 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
NASA Lapso NASA deletes planet-protecting phrasing from mission statement The phrase "to understand and protect our home planet" was quietly deleted from NASA's mission statement in February; the agency's mission now is "to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research." NASA's 19,000 employees were neither consulted nor informed ahead of time of the deletion. The pl ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news (all these topics)

Tipping points	David Roberts	07 Jul 2006	Gristmill
RealClimate has a great post up on climate "tipping points," a notion that has been used and abused with great frequency lately by laymen and journalists -- including yours truly. It goes into detail picking apart positive feedbacks, tipping points, and points of no return. The most valuable bit for me was clarifying what James Hansen has in mind when he says that we have ten years to fundamentally change course: The '10 year' horizon is the point by w ...
Topics: James Hansen (all these topics)

Hansen on 60 Minutes	David Roberts	23 Mar 2006	Gristmill
A while back, famed NASA climatologist James Hansen appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes to talk about global warming and the Bush administration's attempts to suppress climate-change science. Now Crooks & Liars has the video. Check it out. (via A Few Things Ill Considered) Update [2006-3-23 10:28:46 by David Roberts]: That reminds me: Rick Piltz, who worked for years coordinating climate research programs at NASA, the U.S. EPA, and the National Science Foundation, quit ...
Topics: James Hansen (all these topics)

Good grief	David Roberts	10 Feb 2006	Gristmill
James Hansen says NOAA is also stifling its scientists.
Topics: James Hansen (all these topics)

Hush Hush, Keep It Down Now Top NASA climate scientist says he's being censored by Bush admin		30 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Hush Hush, Keep It Down Now Top NASA climate scientist says he's being censored by Bush admin If Bush administration officials were trying to keep NASA's chief climate scientist quiet, as he charges, they failed spectacularly. Instead they got a front-page story in The New York Times. In it, James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, charges that since a lecture in early December in which h ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, politics (all these topics)

Good climate-change journalism: Revkin edition A story on the suppression of climate scientist James Hansen	David Roberts	29 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Wow. Here it is only Saturday night and already the weekend's seen two stellar pieces of reporting on global warming, from two of environmental journalism's top stars, on page A1 of their respective newspapers. First up is Andy Revkin's latest revelation on the Bush administration's ongoing defensive maneuvers against, uh, reality. In this case, reality was being described by the closest thing climate science has to a wise man: James Hansen, director of NASA's Godda ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers		29 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers Hey, did you know that the globe is warming? Really and for true! A new study by researchers at NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Columbia University, published in the journal Science this week, concludes that global warming is real. Really. Lead scientist James Hansen calls the new data a "smoking g ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, oceans (all these topics)

It's gettin' hot in herre	Lisa Hymas	01 Nov 2004	Gristmill
The New York Times editorial page took the Bushies to task yesterday for ignoring and distorting science on climate change, echoing accusations made by NASA's top-dog climatologist, Jim Hansen. Speaking in Iowa last week, Hansen castigated the Bush administration for its failure to face up to facts and act, and he 'said that he had been instructed by Sean O'Keefe, administrator of [NASA], not to discuss publicly the human contribution to global warming,' the Times writes ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

The Hansen Bothers More climate scientists come out against Bush		19 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Hansen Bothers More climate scientists come out against Bush Andrew Revkin of The New York Times has written what may be the definitive account of the battle over science politicization in and around the Bush administration. The broad outlines are familiar -- the science community is more politically mobilized than it has been in decades, outraged at what it sees as the Bush administration's disregard f ...
Topics: climate, James Hansen, politics, United States (all these topics)

Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize Here's a rarity: a possible climate-change success story. Atmospheric levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, have stabilized following 200 years of growth caused primarily by human activities, according to new research by Dutch and American scientists published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, James Hansen, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Storm Troopers		04 Oct 2000	Daily Grist
Read more about: James Hansen Storm Troopers Climate change seems already to be causing weather-related disasters, and the problem is likely to get worse, according to a recent report conducted by scientists at Vrije University in Amsterdam and released by the World Wildlife Fund. Like others before it, the report predicts more droughts and violent storms. It also anticipates that much of the extreme weather to come will hit countries south of the equator, many of which have fewer resources to ...
Topics: James Hansen (all these topics)

There's Methane to His Madness		21 Aug 2000	Daily Grist
Read more about: James Hansen There's Methane to His Madness James Hansen, a respected global warming expert and director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has spent nearly two decades urging countries to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to help curb climate change, but now he's started singing a different tune. In research to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hansen and colleagues say the present emphasis on CO2, by far the ...
Topics: James Hansen (all these topics)

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