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James E. Hansen
James Edward Hansen is an American climatologist. He is an adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years,…
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science · American physicist (born 1941) · physicist · university teacher · astrophysicist · environmentalist · climatologist · astronomer · earth scientist · researcher · atmospheric physicist · also James E. Hansen, James Hansen, J E Hansen, Hansen, James E Hansen, J. E. Hansen
Born 29 March 1941 · Q724095
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2026· 5 entries
“urgency of the science and the inaction taken by governments”
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“The first action that people should take is to use the democratic process. What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash .”
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“The fact that some of these organizations have become part of the Washington ‘go along, get along’ establishment is very unfortunate.”
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“[provides] only a small fraction of our energy”
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2023· 1 entry
Hansen led a team of 18 researchers to publish a paper titled "Global Warming in the Pipeline
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016).
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A team of 19 researchers led by Hansen published a paper "Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: Evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous"
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2015· 1 entry
Dr Hansen stated "The solution [to climate change] has to be a rising price on carbon and then the really dirty fuels like tar sands would fall on the table very quickly
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2013· 5 entries
Hansen received the Joseph Priestley Award at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania "
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Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2013).
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Hansen was again arrested at the White House, along with Daryl Hannah and Robert F
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Hansen authored a paper called "Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide," in which he estimated climate sensitivity to be (3±1) °C based on Pleistocene paleoclimate data
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Hansen and three other leading climate experts wrote an open letter to policy makers, saying that "continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity's ability to avoid dangerous climate change
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2012· 2 entries
Won Edinburgh Medal (2012).
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Presented the TED Talk "Why I must speak out about climate change"
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Blue Planet Prize (2010).
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Awarded Sophie Prize (2010).
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Hansen published a paper entitled "Global Surface Temperature Change" describing current global temperature analysis
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2009· 8 entries
James Hansen, along with 30 other protesters including actress Daryl Hannah, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing police and impeding traffic, during a protest against mountaintop removal mining in Raleigh
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Won Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (2009).
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Hansen wrote an open letter to President Obama where he advocated a "Moratorium and phase-out of coal plants that do not capture and store CO2"
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“Moratorium and phase-out of coal plants that do not capture and store CO2”
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Hansen was awarded the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Meteorological Society, for his "outstanding contributions to climate modeling, understanding climate change forci
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Hansen spoke out against cap and trade, advocating instead what he believes would be a progressive carbon tax at source carbon as oil, gas or coal, with a 100% dividend returned to citizens in equal shares, as proposed b
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“We cannot now afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.”
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His first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, was published
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2008· 6 entries
Awarded Nierenberg Prize (2008).
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Won Nevada Medal (2008).
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Awarded John Muir Award (2008).
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Received the PNC Bank Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for his "outstanding achievements" in science
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“for solving the climate and energy problems, while stimulating the economy”
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Interviews with ABC News, The Guardian, and in a separate op-ed, Hansen has called for putting fossil fuel company executives, including the CEOs of ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, on trial for "high crimes against humanity
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2007· 6 entries
Awarded Dan David Prize (2007).
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Awarded AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (2007).
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Awarded Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (2007).
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Hansen likened coal trains to "death trains" and asserted that these would be "no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species
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Stephen McIntyre notified GISS that many of the U
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Hansen shared the US$1-million Dan David Prize for "achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world"
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award (2006).
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Hansen alleged that NASA administrators had attempted to influence his public statements about the causes of climate change
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Hansen and colleagues compared the observations with the projections made by Hansen in his 1988 testimony before the United States Congress
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected James Hansen to receive its Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility "for his courageous and steadfast advocacy in support of scientists' res
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2003· 2 entries
“Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb?”
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Hansen wrote a paper called "Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Heinz Award (2001).
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Won Roger Revelle Medal (2001).
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Received the 7th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment (endowed with US$250,000) for his research on global warming, and was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2006
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2000· 3 entries
Hansen authored a paper called "Global warming in the twenty-first century: an alternative scenario" in which he presented a more optimistic way of dealing with global warming, focusing on non-CO2 gases and black carbon
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Hansen had proposed an alternative scenario for combating the threat of global warming by focusing on reducing non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs)
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Hansen advanced an alternative view of global warming over the last 100 years, arguing that during that time frame the negative forcing via aerosols and the positive forcing via carbon dioxide (CO2) largely balanced each
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1999· 1 entry
To report that 1998 was the warmest year since the instrumental data began in 1880
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1998· 2 entries
Due to El Niño resulted in a brief drop in subsequent years
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Wentz and Schabel determined that orbital decay had an effect on the derived temperatures
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1997· 1 entry
By Norwegian Jostein Gaarder, the author of the 1991 best-selling novel and teenagers' guide to philosophy Sophie's World, for his " key role for the development of our understanding of human-induced climate change
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1996· 1 entry
For his "development of pioneering radiative transfer models and studies of planetary atmospheres; development of simplified and three-dimensional global climate models; explication of climate forcing mechanisms; analysi
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1988· 3 entries
Hansen reported that he was ninety-nine percent certain the earth was warmer then than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements, there was a clear cause and effect relationship with the greenhouse effect a
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The same year as his well-known Senate testimony
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The four warmest years on record were all in the 1980s
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1967· 2 entries
All three degrees from the University of Iowa
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Studied at University of Iowa, Doctor of Philosophy (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Studied at Kyoto University (1965–1966).
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at University of Iowa, Master of Science (1965).
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-03-29.
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