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The dogma whisperer
A possible consensus perspective on the tax vs. cap debate |
Ken Johnson |
02 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Last revised: 07/10/2008 In his recent Congressional testimony, James Hansen talked about a 'perfect storm' of climatological tipping points that may soon converge to yield global cataclysm. But another kind of perfect storm is brewing: a technology storm that could rapidly displace fossil fuels and restore global climate sustainability. Effective regulatory policy could provide the kind of incentives and stable investment climate that are needed to facili ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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We must tax carbon
Hansen's message to the planet |
Charles Komanoff |
25 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Maybe it was the thought of two decades of climate-crisis exhortation, little more heeded than words shouted at a hurricane. Photo: germuska via Flickr.Maybe it was the temporizing of the Democrats and the obstructionism of the GOP. Or it might have been the images of cities, houses and farmland of his native Iowa drowned by the latest '500-year' floods. Perhaps it was all three. Whatever the reasons, the climate crisis' Paul Revere turned it up ... |
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| Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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Revkin interviews Hansen
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David Roberts |
24 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here, NYT reporter Andrew Revkin interviews climate scientist James Hansen about the 20th anniversary of his seminal Congressional testimony: More on Dot Earth. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen, politics, video (all these topics) |
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Twenty years later
The new testimony before Congress |
Guest author |
23 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest post from climate scientist James Hansen, taken from his briefing to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming. ----- My presentation today is exactly 20 years after my June 23, 1988 testimony to Congress, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference. Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global wa ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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Hansen keeps sounding the alarm
Is anyone listening? |
David Roberts |
19 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| James Hansen has a new paper out, co-authored with six other scientists: "Climate Change and trace gases." It appears in the current issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Hansen says: "In my opinion, among our papers this one probably does the best job of making clear that the Earth is getting perilously close to climate changes that could run out of our control." Steve Connor has a writeup in The Independent. Sounds l ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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Yet another must-read by James Hansen
On 'scientific reticence' and sea-level rise |
Joseph Romm |
25 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Sea level rise of 5 meters in one century? Even if most scientists will not say so publicly, that catastrophe is a real possibility, according to the director of NASA's Goddard Institute Of Space Studies. It may seem like I single Hansen out for recommended reading. But that's only because he: is the nation's top climatologist writes prolifically speaks with unusually bluntness for a scientist has been more right than just about any climat ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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