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Hansen's twentieth anniversary testimony

Twenty years ago yesterday, Dr. James Hansen gave a landmark testimony to US Congress in which he told senators that global warming was real, it was happening, and humanity was to blame.

Yesterday, he appeared before Congress, where he told most of official Washington we are now at the point of a “planetary emergency”.

For the low-down of yesterday's speech, and links to the best media coverage, check out Alex Witze's post over on The Great Beyond.

Olive Heffernan

Posted by Olive Heffernan on June 24, 2008
Categories: Communicating Climate Change, Features, In the News, Olive Heffernan | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

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If it is all right to do so here, I would like to nominate James Hansen to be the Science Laureate of Humanity in 2008.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001
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Posted by: Steve Salmony | June 25, 2008 04:58 PM

I would just like to point out that globally averaged temperature for June 2008 is lower than when Hansen made his speech 20 years ago in June 1988, according to both the UAH and RSS satellite data.

Posted by: PaulM | July 4, 2008 06:18 PM

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