James Hansen

Silence is deadly: I’m speaking out against Canada-U.S. tar sands pipeline

The U.S. Department of State seems likely to approve a huge pipeline, known as Keystone XL to carry tar sands oil (about 830,000 barrels per day) to Texas refineries unless sufficient objections are raised. The scientific community needs to get involved in this fray now. If this project gains approval, it will become exceedingly difficult to control the tar sands monster.

June 4, 2011

China can slow global warming if the US won’t

The world’s leading climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, is sick and tired of the dirty energy lobby’s stranglehold on Washington. That’s why Congress can’t pass a sensible energy policy. Even worse, Big Oil and Big Coal have forced the US to block the world from taking real action to slow climate change. So Hansen is now looking East for leadership, to China. But can Beijing see that it’s own interest is to save the world?

December 9, 2010

James Hansen: Good Riddance, Copenhagen. Time for Better Ideas.

NASA climate scientist James Hansen never expected the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen to amount to much. He told the British Guardian newspaper that it would be better if Copenhagen failed. That’s because Hansen is a vocal critic of the economic policies discussed there, and he hopes Copenhagen’s failure gives the public a chance to talk about new options.

December 23, 2009

Hansen to Australian PM: stop coal plants now

Text of letter from climate scientist James Hansen to Australian PM Kevin Rudd calling on Rudd to provide global leadership to to climate change by ordering a halt to the “construction of coal-fired power plants that do not capture and sequester the C02” they produce.

March 30, 2008

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