Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now.
DR. JAMES HANSEN
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate.
Hansen has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s when he was asked to testify before Congress. He found that the record of his testimony had been re-written. His testimony to Vice President Cheney and other cabinet members in 2001 was ignored. In early 2006 officials at NASA headquarters ordered the public affairs staff to review Hansen'™s coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.
I interviewed Hansen after his lecture at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
