James Hansen: Obama not doing enough
Scientist: Urgency Needed On Climate Change Action
NPR, December 8, 2009
The NASA scientist who accused agency administrators and the Bush White House of manipulating public releases of climate data to make global warming seem less severe says he is disappointed that President Obama hasn't taken more action on the issue.
James Hansen, who heads the earth sciences division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, tells NPR's Morning Edition that "politicians now use the right words — they talk about a "planet in peril" — but their actions still consist of what he calls "greenwash."
"They basically want to continue business as usual," he says.
Hansen's remarks come as a 192-nation climate summit opens in Copenhagen. At a news conference in the Danish capital on Monday, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the current decade is "very likely" to be the warmest since record-keeping began in 1850.
(Audio and transcript here.)
NPR, December 8, 2009
The NASA scientist who accused agency administrators and the Bush White House of manipulating public releases of climate data to make global warming seem less severe says he is disappointed that President Obama hasn't taken more action on the issue.
James Hansen, who heads the earth sciences division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, tells NPR's Morning Edition that "politicians now use the right words — they talk about a "planet in peril" — but their actions still consist of what he calls "greenwash."
"They basically want to continue business as usual," he says.
Hansen's remarks come as a 192-nation climate summit opens in Copenhagen. At a news conference in the Danish capital on Monday, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the current decade is "very likely" to be the warmest since record-keeping began in 1850.
(Audio and transcript here.)
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