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April 3, 2013

Top Climate Scientist James Hansen Retires to Focus on Activism 
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The nation's leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, is retiring
after more than 40 years to focus on activism around fighting global
warming. For over 25 years, Dr. Hansen has headed the Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, NASA's premiere climate research center. His
testimony to a Senate committee in 1988 first brought the threat of
global warming to the world's attention. Under the George W. Bush
administration, he went public to reveal the White House tried to
silence his warnings about the urgent need to address climate change. He
has since been arrested outside the White House for protesting
mountaintop removal and the Keystone XL pipeline. Hansen says he now
plans to devote his time to campaigning in the United States for the
reduction of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

 

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