Sentences with phrase «warming scientist james»

Excerpt: New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin publicly chastised NASA warming scientist James Hansen for promoting sea level claims that are at the upper boundary of what is «even physically possible.»
Before leaving CNS, Morano wrote an article featuring attacks on NASA global warming scientist James E. Hansen by George C. Deutsch, a former NASA press aide accused of censoring Hansen.

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Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the need for more fracked gas.
Climate scientist James Hansen is retiring from NASA this week to devote himself to the fight against global warming
So, the estimated safe threshold identified by the scientists, including NASA climatologist James Hansen, is 350 ppm, or a total increased warming of one watt per meter squared (current warming is roughly 1.5 watts per meter squared).
For decades, American climate scientist James Hansen published important papers on global warming and shared his data at influential congressional hearings — and his policy prescriptions.
Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from human activities.
SUMMARY: Abrupt warming in Arctic could lead to catastrophic consequences says top scientist Dr. Peter Gleick, ICCI Director Pam Pearson, and the founder of Paleoceanography, Dr. James Kennett.
As with the veteran climate scientist James E. Hansen, Kennel's focus on global warming grew out of a background in astrophysics, but he's been working at the interface of earth science and policy since he became the director of NASA's Mission to Earth program during the Clinton administration.
But NASA scientist James Hansen - one of those arrested at the White House last week - warns that two degrees of warming is «a prescription for long - term disaster.»
and there is little doubt in my mind that bush / cheney were wrong when they said conservation was a convenience, when they said there was no evidence that CO2 caused warming, and when they altered scientic evidence in memos (multiple times), and when they tried to muzzle james hanson the NASA scientist who has been most vocal on the subject.
It's a superb examination of what's known, and unknown, about what James Hansen, Susan Solomon and other climate scientists have described as a pause or hiatus in warming.
James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has long had a habit of pushing past where many colleagues dare go in describing the risks posed by global warming, has done it again.
The paper was was written by 17 prominent climate, ice and ocean scientists, led by James E. Hansen, the pioneering climatologist who since 2007 has argued that most of his peers have been too reticent in their projections of the possible pace of sea - level rise in a warming world.
In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.
James E. Hansen, the NASA scientist who has moved ever more into the arena of environmental activism after four decades of climate research, has called on the public to join him at a large demonstration on global warming March 2 at an antiquated power plant supplying the Capitol with electricity and heat from a mix of coil, oil and natural gas.
Their critique has been embraced by James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who was pressed in 2006 to rein in his comments about global warming by political appointees under President George W. Bush.
Researchers such as James Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA, believe that global warming is accelerating and may be approaching a tipping point, a point at which climate change acquires a momentum that makes it irreversible.
It all rests on the phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», which has been endlessly regurgitated by, among others, Al Gore, Naomi Oreskes, George Monbiot, the Union of Concerned Scientists, James Hoggan and Eric Pooley.
Legendary Climate Scientist Likes a GOP Proposal on Global Warming James Hansen, the «father of climate change awareness,» wants the same carbon fee — and - dividend strategy proposed by Republicans https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-climate-scientist-likes-a-gop-proposal-on-global-warming/
In 1998, Michaels criticized NASA scientist James Hansen, a leading global warming scientist.
By James Taylor Sitting in on a March 1 Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) press conference regarding global warming and heavy snowfalls, I couldn't help feeling like the chairman of the Senate committee questioning mafia capo Frank Pentangeli in Godfather II.
What do they think has been happening since 1988, when US National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist James Hansen testified before the US Congress that he was «99 percent certain that global warming was here.»
Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, said, «Many (scientists) are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.»
NASA scientist James Hansen and other climate scientists have repeatedly warned that heating events such as this year's US drought, the Texas drought of 2011, and the Russian drought of 2010, are likely to become more common as human - caused global warming intensifies.
According to Dr. James Hansen (formerly of NASA) and 97 % of climate scientists worldwide, manmade production of CO2 is the leading cause of global warming and climate change.
Renowned NASA climate scientist James Hansen, argues the Waxman - Markey approach would fail to reduce carbon emissions enough to prevent catastrophic warming.
NEW YORK — Famed climate scientist and activist James Hansen has said it before, and he'll say it again: Two degrees of warming is too much.
James Hansen, former head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and known as the «father of global warming,» speaks at a climate change protest in Washington D.C. Hansen, together with 16 other scientists, will publish a paper this week claiming that the threat of global warming is far greater than anyone has suspected.
In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.
The Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R - Exxon)-RRB- has just released a «report»: 0ver 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man - Made Global Warming Claims in 2007.
While scientists the world over continue to study and debate what part man has played (if any) in the gentle warming that took place mainly in the latter half of the last century, Dr. James Hansen is absolutely certain.
Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer
Most so - called climate skeptics and an increasing number of so - called consensus scientists including now the luminary James Hansen too have acknowledged the so - called pause in global warming.
Gray criticized NASA scientist and global warming alarmist James Hansen, calling him «the most egregious abuser» of data.
Titles include The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled The World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy Spencer; The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With «Climate Change» Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History by Christopher Booker and Killing The Earth To Save It: How Environmentalists Are Ruining The Planet, Destroying The Economy And Stealing Your Jobs by James Delingpole.
My Columbia University colleague Dr. James Hansen, for 30 years NASA's leading climate scientist, warns us that even with warming well below 2 - degree C, human - induced warming could lead to the disintegration of parts of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, causing the sea level to rise by as much as 6 - 9 meters.
Global warming study warns of vanishing climates · Scientists warn of disaster in biodiversity hotspots · Species «must evolve or migrate» to survive James Randerson, science correspondent The Guardian, Tuesday 27 March 2007
Climate advocates, including former NASA scientist James Hansen, have shifted away from the anti-nuclear stance of the 80s and 90s, now believing it to be part of the global warming solution.
NASA scientist James Hansen has warned about global warming for almost 20 years.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe who calls global warming a hoax, along with other prominent deniers of global warming, has said scientists should focus on what is «not melting.»
Scientists like James Hansen identify a significant risk for multi-meter sea level rise this Century if 2 C warming thresholds are breached.
Such complaints came to the fore starting in late January, when James E. Hansen, the climate scientist, and several midlevel public affairs officers told The Times that political appointees, including Mr. Deutsch, were pressing to limit Dr. Hansen's speaking and interviews on the threats posed by global warming.
The Cold Truth Initiative — Scientist Confesses: «Global Warming a $ 22 Billion Scam» November 17, 2014 Imagine, for a moment, sitting at a prestigious steakhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, a hot spot for some of the most wealthy and famous — Donald Trump, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, Rush Limbaugh, and hundreds more.
After all, the 1988 document was circulated just as NASA scientist James Hansen testified in Congress that global warming had already arrived and had to be dealt with urgently.
- James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases.
This is why scientists such as James Hansen refer to global warming as an inter-generational issue, because the heating due to our emissions are only fully felt by the next generation, due to the time lag created by the oceans.
Within the last two years, a number of leading scientists — including Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), British ecologist James Lovelock, and NASA scientist James Hansen — have all declared that humanity is about to pass or already has passed a «tipping point» in terms of global warming.
James Hansen, NASA's top climate scientist, is one of the most impassioned and trusted voices on global warming.
«If we don't get this thing under control we are going to destroy the creation,» said James Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and was one of the first scientists to raise the alarm about global warming in the 1980s.
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