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James Edward Hansen
American physicist
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country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: University of Iowa
occupation: physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist, environmentalist
award received: Sophie Prize, Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, Blue Planet Prize, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Nierenberg Prize, Dan David Prize, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, Sierra Club John Muir Award, Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award, Heinz Award, Roger Revelle Medal, NASA Distinguished Service Medal
influenced by: James Van Allen
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1
James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of global warming, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.
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2Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
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author: James Edward Hansen, Makiko Sato
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68Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature ( 2013 )
scientific article
author: Frank Ackerman, Jeffrey Sachs, James Edward Hansen, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Konrad Steffen, Camille Parmesan, David Beerling, Peter Smith, Eelco J. Rohling, Johan Rockström, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Makiko Sato, Karina von Schuckmann, James C. Zachos
Pushker Kharecha, Paul J Hearty, Shi-Ling Hsu, Lise Van Susteren
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? ( 2008 )
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author: Valérie Masson-Delmotte, James Edward Hansen, Makiko Sato, James C. Zachos
Pushker Kharecha, David Beerling, Robert Berner, Mark Pagani, Maureen Raymo, Dana L. Royer
Accurate Monitoring of Terrestrial Aerosols and Total Solar Irradiance: Introducing the Glory Mission ( 2007 )
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author: James Edward Hansen
Michael I. Mishchenko, Brian Cairns, Larry D. Travis, Greg Kopp, Carl F. Schueler, Bryan A. Fafaul, Ronald J. Hooker, Hal B. Maring, Tom Itchkawich
Global warming in the twenty-first century: an alternative scenario ( 2000 )
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author: Reto Ruedy, James Edward Hansen
M Sato, A Lacis, V Oinas
Global temperature change ( 2006 )
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author: James Edward Hansen, Makiko Sato
Reto Ruedy, Ken Lo, David W Lea, Martin Medina-Elizade