Dr. James E. Hansen
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Director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions,
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Affiliated with: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Climate Science, Awareness and Soutions
Earth Institute, Columbia University
475 Riverside Dr. Ste 401-O
New York, NY 10015
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the clouds of Venus helped identify their composition as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has focused his research on Earth’s climate, especially human-made climate change. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and was designated by Time Magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He has received numerous awards including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby and Roger Revelle Research Medals, the Sophie Prize and the Blue Planet Prize. Dr. Hansen is recognized for speaking truth to power, for identifying ineffectual policies as greenwash, and for outlining actions that the public must take to protect the future of young people and other life on our planet.
VIDEO
Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.
PROJECTS
Only select projects listed belowName | Start Date | End Date |
Weather and Climate Information for Africa (WISER) | 3/1/18 | 3/31/21 |
Integrating Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Curricula in Senegal | 10/1/22 | 9/30/23 |