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NASAs Top Climate Scientist Retires to Activist Life
2013-04-03 20:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Outspoken climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA`s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is retiring as director of the cutting-edge Earth climate research lab to devote more time to climate activism and scientific inquiry. In an email to the "New York Times" Monday, Hansen wrote that he is stepping down "so that I can spend full time on science, drawing attention to the implications for young people, and making clear what science says needs to be done." Dr. James Hansen with other...
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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...
Fairbanks scientist plans epic Arctic climate change study by snowmachine, kite-skis
2013-03-09 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: Kenji Yoshikawa will soon sleep on brilliant, blue-white landscape that has never felt the imprint of his boots. Beginning on spring equinox, the permafrost scientist and a partner will attempt to drive snowmachines from Prudhoe Bay to Canadas Baffin Island. While traveling a distance equal to Seattle to Tokyo to Seattle over land and sea ice, Yoshikawa will camp outside villages in an Arctic Oven tent. Along the way, hell stop at village schools in Canadas far north, drill holes in the ground...
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Scientist: Climate change hurting your health
2013-02-27 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fremont News Messenger: Climate change threatens polar bears and is rapidly melting Arctic ice, but the effect it is already having on peoples health is what might cause them to take action, a federal official said Tuesday. Global warming has caused more severe heat waves, increased pollen counts and lengthened allergy seasons, said George Luber, associate director for climate change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a webinar presented by the The Ohio State University Climate Change Outreach...
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