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James R. Hansen

James R. Hansen
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James R. Hansen

James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University. A former historian for NASA, Hansen is the author of eight books on the history of aerospace. He lives in Auburn, Alabama.

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The Zimbabwean, November 5, 2011
...planet similar to that in which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted” (NASA’s James Hansen, of the Planetary Boundaries group). CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” are imperative for life on earth - without them, the Earth...
Design Observer, October 26, 2011
...In the 1980s the population of the region was growing explosively; Sunbelt cities were expanding rapidly; climate scientist James Hansen gave his now famous congressional testimony describing global warming caused by human-produced greenhouse gases; the...
ZNet, October 12, 2011
...sent the administration a letter indicating that such a development would be disastrous for the climate. NASA's James Hansen, the government's top climate researcher, said heavily tapping tar-sands oil, a particularly “dirty” form of fossil fuel,...
The Energy Collective, September 30, 2011
...can’t imagine what’s in store for these people.) I have no delusions that anyone — not James Hansen, not Bill McKibben, not Joe Romm or Paul Gilding or Heidi Cullen or Gavin Schmidt or Kevin Trenberth or Michael Mann or anyone else you can name —...
Steubenville Herald-Star, September 14, 2011
...Institute faculty. He is the author of "The Work of the Cantor" and co-author of "Cantor Basics" with James Hansen and Melanie Coddington. Information on Simmons is available online at ouculusmusic.com. Simmons' CDs, "Sudden Waves" and "Singing Out," are...
Athens County News, August 29, 2011
...to join the protest, McKibben, along with others including journalist Naomi Klein, actor Danny Glover and NASA scientist James Hansen, wrote that the Keystone pipeline is "a 1,500-mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent, a way to make it...
ZNet, August 28, 2011
...to join the protest, McKibben, along with others including journalist Naomi Klein, actor Danny Glover and NASA scientist James Hansen, wrote the Keystone pipeline is “a 1,500-mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent, a way to make it...
MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones, October 11, 2011
...sent the administration a letter indicating that such a development would be disastrous for the climate. NASA's James Hansen, the government's top climate researcher, said heavily tapping tar-sands oil, a particularly "dirty" form of fossil fuel, would...
The Cost of Energy, September 29, 2011
...can’t imagine what’s in store for these people.) I have no delusions that anyone — not James Hansen, not Bill McKibben, not Joe Romm or Paul Gilding or Heidi Cullen or Gavin Schmidt or Kevin Trenberth or Michael Mann or anyone else you can name...
ClimateSight, August 11, 2011
...rebuttal, as well as an acknowledgement that the Venus syndrome on Earth, while distant, might be possible – James Hansen would even say plausible. A few paragraphs are dedicated to discussing and criticizing scientific postmodernism, which I think is...
Tom Nelson, August 3, 2011
...that we need to transform how we live. I agree with activists like Bill McKibben and scientists like James Hansen. A problem as severe as climate change requires a mass social movement. Because what we are dealing with is a small group of people that...
Big Think, August 1, 2011
...Don't fill in this field Age of Engagement Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) James Hansen On the Easter Bunny Myth of Renewables and His Plan for a Carbon Tax Matthew C. Nisbet on August 1, 2011, 9:16 AM Tweet In a recent essay...
Climate Realists, July 16, 2011
...laid out a case indicting — among others — the U.N., the Club of Rome, Rachel Carson, James Hansen, and Al Gore, and having made unveiled comparisons to the Nazi concept of Lebensraum, the author becomes self-conscious, as if suddenly noticing that...
MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones, July 14, 2011
...similar temperature. It won't happen overnight, thank God, but according to the planet's most important climatologist, James Hansen, burning even a substantial portion of that oil would mean it was "essentially game over" for the climate of this planet....