James Hansen on Climate Change

[Dale]

Dr. James Hansen has been quoted on Christian Forums in connection with global warming/climate change. What we have heard could be highly misleading. James Hansen was NASA employee from 1972 to 2013, forty-one years. What did James Hansen really say about climate change?

“The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now.”
--James Hansen before a committe of the US Senate in 1988.

James Hansen's Climate Warning, 30 Years Later


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James Hansen's Climate Warning, 30 Years Later


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<< Hansen said what he really wishes happened is “that the warning be heeded and actions be taken.” >>

<< It was then and there that Hansen went out on a limb and proclaimed that global warming was already here. >>

<< Hansen, still at Columbia University, has been arrested five times for environmental protests. >>

James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming
By SETH BORENSTEIN June 18, 2018

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James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warming

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"NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening."



Same title as above but different story:

James Hansen Wishes He Wasn't So Right About Global Warming
Thirty years after his historic testimony saying global warming is here and a problem, scientist James Hansen wishes he was wrong about climate change.


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https://www.usnews.com/news/news/ar...wishes-he-wasnt-so-right-about-global-warming

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<< Dr. James Hansen has been called the "father of global warming." >>

<< Dr. Hansen increasingly began to take a stand as an activist against greenhouse gas emissions. He started protesting, even got himself arrested several times. >>

James Hansen in interview:

<< So it doesn't warm up quickly, but once we warm it up, it doesn't cool off quickly either, so if we start the disintegration process on the large ice sheets, then you may pass a point at which you just can't stop it. >>


'Father of global warming' worries the climate young people inherit will be out of their control

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'Father of global warming' worries the climate young people inherit will be out of their control | CBC Radio

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"Three decades ago, led by Hansen, they [climate scientists] made a series of predictions; for the most part these have proved to be spectacularly accurate."



Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now


By Elizabeth Kolbert

June 20, 2018


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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now

 

[USincognito]

Yep. He called it.

 

[Dale]

Dr. James Hansen has been quoted on Christian Forums in connection with global warming/climate change. What we have heard could be highly misleading. James Hansen was NASA employee from 1972 to 2013, forty-one years. What did James Hansen really say about climate change?

“The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now.”
--James Hansen before a committe of the US Senate in 1988.

James Hansen's Climate Warning, 30 Years Later


Link
James Hansen's Climate Warning, 30 Years Later


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<< Hansen said what he really wishes happened is “that the warning be heeded and actions be taken.” >>

<< It was then and there that Hansen went out on a limb and proclaimed that global warming was already here. >>

<< Hansen, still at Columbia University, has been arrested five times for environmental protests. >>

James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming
By SETH BORENSTEIN June 18, 2018

Link
James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warming

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"NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening."



Same title as above but different story:

James Hansen Wishes He Wasn't So Right About Global Warming
Thirty years after his historic testimony saying global warming is here and a problem, scientist James Hansen wishes he was wrong about climate change.


Link
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/ar...wishes-he-wasnt-so-right-about-global-warming

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<< Dr. James Hansen has been called the "father of global warming." >>

<< Dr. Hansen increasingly began to take a stand as an activist against greenhouse gas emissions. He started protesting, even got himself arrested several times. >>

James Hansen in interview:

<< So it doesn't warm up quickly, but once we warm it up, it doesn't cool off quickly either, so if we start the disintegration process on the large ice sheets, then you may pass a point at which you just can't stop it. >>


'Father of global warming' worries the climate young people inherit will be out of their control

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'Father of global warming' worries the climate young people inherit will be out of their control | CBC Radio

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"Three decades ago, led by Hansen, they [climate scientists] made a series of predictions; for the most part these have proved to be spectacularly accurate."



Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now


By Elizabeth Kolbert

June 20, 2018


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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now

The sources I quotes in the OP are Columbia University; US News & World Report; the Associated Press; the Canadian Broadcasting Company; and the New Yorker.

This is obvious from the links in my notes but when I put it up on CF, only the headline shows and the source is obscured.

 

[Brightmoon]

Yep. He called it.

I remember when Bush jr tried to shut him up and he refused to back down

 

[The Barbarian]

Remarkable that he was so accurate at a time when we were just starting to get some understanding of the way it all works.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

I just heard a fascinating podcast interview with Naomi Oreskes (professor of the History of Science at Harvard) describing how the denialism of a. the link between 2nd-hand tobacco smoke and cancer, b. ozone depletion, and now c. climate change, how the same few people (including scientists) are involved in all three, and how it's not really about the science, it's a political concern to do with government interference and constraints on freedom. Well worth a listen.