James E. Hansen is a leading climate scientist and global warming activist. He is well-known for his widely broadcasted 1988 testimony to Congress, which helped make global warming a matter of widespread public concern. Robert Jastrow, Fred Seitz, and William Nierenberg seriously misrepresented Hansen’s data in their lobbying work at the George C. Marshall Institute.
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Chapter 4
...caused the ozone hole by cooling the stratosphere. He cited researchers like V. Ramanathan and James E. Hansen , who agreed that climate change was cooling the stratosphere—but attributed this to human greenhouse...
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Chapter 6
...the “White House Effect.” In 1988, a severe drought ravished the globe, and climate scientist James E. Hansen publicly testified that human-caused global warming was already observable. Global temperatures had already increased by...
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But Jastrow, Seitz, and Nierenberg’s argument was based on a serious distortion of James Hansen ’s data. Hansen showed that three factors explain most historic temperature change: CO2 emissions, volcanic...
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