Jim Hansen - 20 Years of Climate Concerns

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Dr. James Hansen, a veteran NASA climate expert, has been both lauded and criticized for moving beyond studying global warming to pressing lawmakers and the public to end unfettered coal burning and build a nonpolluting energy system. I interviewed him 6.21.08 for a New York Times story and post and video on my Dot Earth blog.

More at nytimes.com/dotearth and nytimes.com/climate.
Dr. Hansen's personal Web site is: columbia.edu/~jeh1.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 23, 2008 at 2:08 am
Author: anrevk

Length: 00:09:52
Rating: 4.30
Views: 4307

Tags: environment earth politics energy oil coal fossil fuels new york times revkin jim hansen james NASA

Video Comments:
steamgeek (August 3, 2008 at 12:22 am)
"God does not play dice with the universe" was an Einstein original.

It will be good to look back 10 years form now, and revisit NASA funding priorities or HR "issues".
forestdragon11 (July 2, 2008 at 11:54 pm)
Self appointed climate expert? Some evidence for that, please. He seems to have plenty of credentials, from where I'm standing.
As far as climate change, I am absolutely on board with Hansen. I've only been alive about 20 years, but I don't remember this many warm seasons 10 years ago. What I don't get is how these 50, 60, 70-something year old politicians are missing it.
human1554215465 (June 25, 2008 at 4:37 pm)
@magnusea - Don't be unfair. If you want to be fair, you should focus on the Co2 emission per capita. If all human on earth have the emission per capita like a Chinese or an Indian do, the world is maybe saved. If all human have the emission per capita like American do the world is doomed. - The western world is the first culprit for all this mess, not the poor Chinese and Indian. Why, American, in all your movies you want to save the world? In reality, it looks like the opposite.
magnusea (June 25, 2008 at 4:00 pm)
Here are movies with climate scientists and full of good science:

magnusorerar blogspot
com/2007/03/magnificent-global-warming-swindfe
html (Replace spaces and new lines with dots)

Hansen ingnore China, India and southern Asia as CO2 emittors, but focus om US, UK and Germany. Does he have an anti-western discourse?
human1554215465 (June 25, 2008 at 2:35 pm)
Jim Hansen is THE hero trying to awake human to stand to save the world, but rich don't care about saving the world, they just want to continue watching superhero movies and driving cars. Jim Hansen is not corrupted, he thinks in the interests of the most people rather than the few. People agree with science if it offers new opportunities, when it opens doors, but they disagree with science when it advices to close doors. People just don't listen, so we know how it all ends. Bye civilization.
OmniSurveyor (June 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm)
That should have been a 30 year period. it's still B.S.
wilbert1755 (June 25, 2008 at 12:53 am)
A self appointed climate expert.
wilbert1755 (June 25, 2008 at 12:52 am)
he is a self appointed Climate expert.
wilbert1755 (June 25, 2008 at 12:52 am)
Of course since you have seen it all on TV it must be true? he is a Self appointed Climate expert .
thisrealityhere (June 24, 2008 at 11:17 pm)
I strongly agree with you Tony. All this ruckus about lowering gas prices is making me sick to my stomach. We're already spotting funnel clouds in Toronto. When are people gonna wake up and see the big picture.