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Hansen paper emphasizes importance of retention and expansion of nuclear power for health and climate reasons
2013-04-04 21:30:23| Green Car Congress
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James Hansen, Famed Climate Scientist, Urges Obama To Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline
2013-04-04 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: On Thursday, after retiring from NASA to pursue environmental activism, James E. Hansen published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times warning that the Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, would exacerbate global warming and put the U.S. on the hook for oil spills and environmental degradation. The op-ed marks the first move in Hansen's new career as a carbon campaigner, after nearly half a century spent as NASA's most famous climate scientist at the agencys Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In...
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NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Quits to Fight Global Warming
2013-04-02 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate scientist James Hansen is retiring from NASA this week to devote himself to the fight against global warming. Hansen's retirement concludes a 46-year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, Hansen, 72, has become an activist for climate change, which didn't sit well with NASA headquarters in Washington. "As a...
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NASA top climate scientist James Hansen to retire from Goddard Institute, sue govt
2013-04-02 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! NASAs James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a controversial and highly vocal voice of alarm about the planets changing climate, will retire as the director of the space institute, NASA announced Tuesday -- and plans to immediately sue his former employer. 'It was becoming clear that there were people in NASA who would be much happier if the sideshow would exit.' - James Hansen Hansen will step down from his $180,000...
Hansen retires to push climate fight
2013-04-02 13:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: One of the leading voices on the science of global warming is to retire from Nasa this week to be more active in the fight against fossil fuels. Dr James E Hansen has been the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Research since 1981. He is sometimes called the "father of global warming" for his early warnings about the impacts of rising levels of greenhouse gases. But some critics say he has hampered the cause by overstating the risk. In the 1970s, Dr Hansen focused on studies and...
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