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Canadian official attacks U.S. climatologist James Hansen over Keystone pipeline
Canada’s natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, rarely bothers to hide his dislike for critics of the country’s carbon-heavy tar sands or the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But it still came as a surprise to hear Oliver lash out at one of America’s pre-eminent scientists, climatologist James Hansen, during a visit…
Climate change pioneer James Hansen to retire
Pioneering NASA climatologist James Hansen, one of the first scientists to raise the alarm about global warming, is retiring after 46 years, a colleague confirmed to AFP on Tuesday. Hansen, 72, who headed the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, announced his departure in an email to the…
NASA scientist warns of mass extinction from global warming
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned Wednesday that human-made climate change could lead to the deaths of millions of species. “If we continue with business as usual this century, we will drive to extinction 20 to 50 percent of the species on the planet,” he…
Study: Current heatwave likely to show global warming is ‘scientific fact’
A new study by the man called the “godfather of global warming” says there’s no getting around it: the heat wave pounding most of the country – and the world – is the result of man-made global warming. “This is not some scientific theory,” NASA scientist James Hansen told the…
Climate change to blame for extreme heat: NASA scientist
Human-driven climate change is to blame for a series of increasingly hot summers and the situation is already worse than was expected just two decades ago, a top NASA scientist said on Saturday. James Hansen, who directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, wrote in the Washington Post that…
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