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James E. Hansen
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American physicist
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James E. Hansen is an American physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist, and environmentalist. Born in Denison, Iowa, in 1941, he holds the academic degree of professor. He has been educated at the University of Iowa, Kyoto University, and the University of Tokyo. His professional career includes employment at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University.
Hansen’s field of work encompasses atmospheric physics and climate models. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. His notable works include studies on North Atlantic deep water formation, the near infrared reflectivity of Venus and ice clouds, and long-term monitoring of global climate forcings and feedbacks. He has received the Sophie Prize, the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the Blue Planet Prize, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
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- Born
- 1941
- Works
- 7
Top works
- North Atlantic deep water formation
- Near infrared reflectivity of Venus and ice clouds
- Long-term monitoring of global climate forcings and feedbacks
- North Atlantic deep water formation
- Climate processes and climate sensitivity
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Film & TV
Denison, Iowa, USA
James Hansen is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years he has…
Known for
- Valve Turners2024
- Climate Change: The Facts — Self2019
- Sea Blind, the Price of Shipping Our Stuff — Himself2016
- Greedy Lying Bastards — Self (archive footage)2013
- Cool It — Self - Director, NASA Institute for Space Studies2010
- Everything's Cool — Self (archive footage)2007
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Key facts
- Born
- James Edward Hansen , ( 1941-03-29 ) March 29, 1941 (age 85) , Denison, Iowa , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Iowa
- Known for
- Radiative transfer Planetary atmospheres Climate models
- Awards
- Klopsteg Memorial Award (2011) Member of the National Academy of Sciences Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016) Tang Prize (2018) Heinz Award in the Environment (2001)
- Fields
- Atmospheric physics
- Institutions
- Currently Columbia University ;, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies 1967–2013
- Thesis
- The atmosphere of Venus : a dust insulation model (1967)
- Doctoral advisor
- Satoshi Matsushima
- Website
- www .columbia .edu /~jeh1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Hansen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Denison
- Occupation
- astrophysicist
- Educated at
- University of Iowa
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Academic degree
- professor
- Field of work
- climate model
- Official website
- www.columbia.edu/~jeh1
- Image
- James Hansen profile (cropped).jpg
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- James Hansen
- date of birth
- 1941-03-29
- member of
- Academia Europaea
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- influenced by
- James A. Van Allen
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Encyclopedic overview
James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American climatologist. He is an adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years, he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of global warming, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.
In 2000, Hansen had proposed an alternative scenario for combating the threat of global warming by focusing on reducing non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs). His estimates of global climate had found that non-CO2 GHGs (such as methane) caused more observed global warming than carbon dioxide. However, he pointed out that CO2 would become the dominant climate forcing, if global emissions continued to rise.
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