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James Hansen retires from science to spend more time with his politics

2013-04-02 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Leading climate scientist James Hansen is to retire from Nasa this week, leaving him more time to spend working on political advocacy at state, federal and international levels. It's clearly a move made with political advocacy in mind. As the New York Times puts it: "At 72, he said, he feels a moral obligation to step up his activism in his remaining years." Hansen has long been a problem for those who believe science and politics should be separate. It'll be very interesting to see this all play...

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James Hansen is Leaving NASA to Intensify Campaign for Carbon Cuts

2013-04-02 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: After nearly half a century of research in planetary and climate science for NASA, James E. Hansen is retiring on Wednesday to pursue his passion for climate activism without the hindrances that come with government employment. Justin Gillis has filed a thorough look at Hansens journey from climate scientist to impassioned carbon campaigner. Heres an excerpt and a link to the rest: [R]etirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits...

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James E. Hansen Retiring From NASA to Fight Global Warming

2013-04-01 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: 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. His departure, after a 46-year career at the space agencys Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, will deprive federally sponsored climate research of its best-known public figure. At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to...

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Knock it off, NYT: In defense of James Hansen and other climate hawks

2013-03-05 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Like this morning. I opened the newspaper to read a column in the New York Times by Joe Nocera. Its his fourth column pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline; fair enough. (Though in the third, he managed to get the economics of carbon so completely backward that he had to append a long correction to yet another column.) This time, though, the vehicle he used was an attack on NASA scientist James Hansen, who had correctly identified the huge amount of carbon in the tar sands of Canada and Venezuela....

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