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Climate Scientist and Former NASA Researcher
About James Hansen
In 2006, James Hansen stood before the U.S. Senate with a thermometer in hand, its mercury rising past the red line he’d drawn at 350 ppm CO₂, and declared that exceeding that threshold would trigger irreversible ice sheet collapse. That testimony, grounded in his pioneering 1988 climate model that first quantified anthropogenic forcing with observable surface temperature trends, reshaped how policymakers interpreted scientific certainty. Unlike many peers, Hansen consistently bridged atmospheric physics and civil disobedience, getting arrested outside the White House in 2013 protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, not as an activist first, but as a scientist who’d watched model projections become measurable reality: Arctic sea ice decline accelerating 40% faster than his team’s 2000 forecast, Greenland’s mass loss doubling between 2003, 2013. His work didn’t just predict warming, it calibrated the margin of error for political delay.
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- “How did your 1988 Senate testimony change how courts handle climate causation?”
- “What does your ice-sheet instability modeling say about Miami's 2050 flood risk?”
- “Why did you shift from GISS modeling to fossil fuel divestment advocacy in 2012?”
- “What data convinced you that 'dangerous anthropogenic interference' began in 1970?”