james hansen
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Update 5 March: watch a highlights video from the Capitol Climate Action
Yesterday was a momentous one for the climate movement in the US. Over 2,500 clean energy activists came to Washington DC to participate in the largest act of civil disobedience on global warming in American history. Former coal miners, ministers, mothers and students - all members of Capitol Climate Action - successfully shut all five entrances to the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant, which is used to heat and cool the Capitol building, for over four hours.
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Posted by bex — 12 September 2008 at 10:49am
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James Hansen in conversation outside Maidstone Crown Court © Rezac/Greenpeace
I blogged bits of Hansen's spoken testimony on the day he gave it, but here's his written witness statement in full (pdf).
If you don't want to read through the whole thing, here are the summary facts (known, as Hansen writes, "by the UK government, by the utility
EON, by the fossil fuel industry, and by the defendants at the time of
their actions in 2007"):
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Posted by bex — 12 February 2008 at 11:09am
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Jubilant climbers on top of the chimney at Kingsnorth power station in October
I've been so busy with the launch of EfficienCity (our blueprint for a climate-friendly town) that I haven't had a chance to update you on all the goings on in our coal campaign since we delivered our alternative energy speech at the government / industry shindig last Wednesday.
On Friday morning, listeners of Radio 4's Today programme heard a withering attack on the proposed new coal plant at Kingsnorth from top Nasa scientist (and the world's most
eminent climate scientist) James Hansen. The plans for the UK's first new coal plant in 30 years were, he said, a "terrible idea" which “will destroy the efforts of
millions of citizens to reduce their carbon emissions”.
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Plans for the UK’s first coal power station in a generation are a “terrible idea”, said the world’s most eminent climate scientist this morning.
Posted by bex — 19 December 2007 at 1:05pm
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A couple of days ago, I wrote that leading climate scientist and director of Nasa's Goddard Institute James Hansen was planning to write to Gordon Brown, urging him to stop the new coal rush in the UK.
Here's the full text of that letter. It's powerful stuff, and piles the pressure onto Gordon Brown ahead of next month's decision by Medway Council, on whether to allow the first new coal plant in 30 years to be built at Kingsnorth.
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NASA expert tells PM, "You have the potential to influence the future of the planet"
Dr James Hansen, the world's leading climate scientist, has today written a remarkable letter to Gordon Brown telling the Prime Minister his energy policy could be a "tipping point for the world."
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.
Posted by bex — 17 December 2007 at 4:02pm
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that building a load of new coal power plants probably isn't the brightest idea for the future of our planet, but it's nice when a rocket scientist comes out and says it.
The director of Nasa's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen, has joined the debate on the UK's the new coal rush, and is writing to Gordon Brown to urge him to block plans to
build up to eight new coal-fired power stations.