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An interview with climatologist James Hansen

SEP 29, 2009
Physics Today
Earth Island Journal : A recent New York Times article pointedly asked whether NASA climate scientist James Hansen still matters. The subtext to the story was, has Hansen been too vocal and too unconventional in his criticism of Washington’s response to climate change to be taken seriously?Nell Greenberg interviews Hansen over his recent political action on combating climate change, and how he ended up in climate science in the first place.
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