Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

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James Hansen believes scientists have an obligation to speak out about their findings on climate change

NASA’s top climate expert, James Hansen, became a household name last year when he told <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ex=1296190800&en=51c46d7689bee520&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">The New York Times</a> that the Bush administration was trying to silence him for his claims about climate change and our need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.  During a recent trip to Seattle, Hansen dropped by Grist’s headquarters to <a title="Grist interview with James Hansen" href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/05/15/hansen/index.html" target="_blank">speak about the growing urgency on global warming</a>, why a molecule of CO2 from coal is worse than a molecule of CO2 from oil, and what we need to do to get the climate crisis under control.  Hat tip to <a title="Grist interview with James Hansen on climate change" href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/05/15/hansen/index.html" target="_blank">Grist</a>.by Erin Swanson <a href="mailto:ESwanson@enviance.com">ESwanson@enviance.com</a> 9 application/xml false climate change James Hansen Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him New York Times article on James Hansen claiming the Bush administration tried to silence his pleas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ex=1296190800&en=51c46d7689bee520&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Clarion Caller An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/05/15/hansen/index.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 eswanson false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107524 blog blogsite/Enviance/web