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Breakthrough: Is James Hansen Undermining his Credibility?
As the national debate has shifted from climate science to climate policy, Dr. Hansen has proven his limits as a political spokesperson.
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http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/06/step_aside_james_hansen.shtml
Hansen calls for plain-written expert report on sea level change - environmentalresearchweb
Hansen claims that the IPCC 2007 figures are low because the IPCC says it is unable to evaluate possible dynamical responses of the ice sheets and therefore its figures do not include any...
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http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/research/30116
An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen | By Kate Sheppard | Grist | Main Dish | 15 May 2007
There was a gap between what scientists really thought and what was in the public knowledge in regards to ice sheet stability and sea level rise. [...] Funding agencies treat more conserv...
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http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/05/15/hansen
Kate Sheppard: James Hansen's testimony on climate change should be a wake-up call to Congress | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We've known for decades now that action isn't an option – it's a necessity. As we once again hear from Hansen about the urgency of this issue, we should this time not let his warnings g...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/23/climatechange.carbonemissions2
Civilization's last chance - Los Angeles Times
Civilization is what grows up in the margins of leisure and security provided by a workable relationship with the natural world. That margin won't exist, at least not for long, as long as...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-mckibben11-2008may11,0,2392815.story
New Focus on Coal's Part in Warming - washingtonpost.com
James E. Hansen [...] sent a letter recently to the head of one of the nation's largest power companies, calling on him to confront the role that his coal-fired plants play in global warm...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040501136.html
Prometheus: Temperature Trends 1990-2007: Hansen, IPCC, Obs Archives
The figure below shows linear trends in temperature for Jim Hansen's three 1988 scenarios (in shades of blue), for the IPCC predictions issued in 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007 (in shades of gree...
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http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001330temperature_trend...
Interview with NASA Climate Expert James Hansen: 'We Need to Take Action Soon'
Even if we decide now we've got to slow down as fast as is practical, there's still going to be enough emissions to take us to the warmest level that the planet has seen in a million years.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,476275,00.html
The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books
Even when the scientific evidence is clear, technical nit-picking by contrarians leaves the public with the false impression that there is still great scientific uncertainty about the rea...
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131
Earth's Climate Approaching 'Tipping Point', According To NASA
Amplifying feedbacks include increased absorption of sunlight as melting exposes darker surfaces and speedup of iceberg discharge as the warming ocean melts ice shelves that otherwise inh...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531073748.htm
Climate target is not radical enough - study | Environment | The Guardian
The fundamental reason for his reassessment was what he calls "slow feedback" mechanisms which are only now becoming fully understood. They amplify the rise in temperature caused by incre...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
Clock Running Out on Irreversible Climate Change – Part I
A battle is shaping up, Hansen warns, between the fossil-fuel producing corporations that seek short-term profits and the young who must eventually confront the consequences of climate ch...
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=10657
James Hansen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the glo...
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WorldChanging: Old King Coal: Why the World Needs a Coal Power Moratorium
The only practical way to keep CO2 below or close to the “dangerous level” is to phase out coal use during the next few decades, except where CO2 is captured and sequestered.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//006997.html