James Hansen

And the reason is, is this is 20 years past inconvenient truth.

This is decades since 1988 when Jim Hansen, who's been on my program several times years ago, said, we have a problem here, right? And Exxon hid it.

And so the deniers, if you will, the diminishers have been proven wrong.

They really have all these years, all this research later.

Yeah.

In late '80s, this famous climate scientist, James Hansen, testified before Congress-

Yeah

... and said, "This is going to happen."

And so I think in six months we will be shocked in ways that we don't even understand now.

So there is that sense of the unknown about this, but it appears to be an extraordinary event that nobody except perhaps James Hansen saw coming.

In the next episode, I'm speaking with author and journalist Natasha Walter about her recent book, Feminism for a World on Fire.

Also, this is actually, could be the beginning of something, not the end.

Well, I mean, this El Nino is unprecedented, and so we don't know what its consequences will be.

We have no historical analogue.

And so I think in six months we will be shocked in ways that we don't even... understand now so there is that that sense of of of the unknown about this but um it is it is is it appears to be an extraordinary event that nobody except perhaps James Hansen saw coming

okay well I'm sure we'll be speaking.

And that's the end of that article.

The next article is titled Field Full of Experience and Dash of Rust by Ava Wallace, Matthew Futterman, and James Hansen.

In the men's draw in the U.S. Open, Carlos Alcaraz is trying to defend his title as he returns from an injury to his right wrist that kept him off the court for four months.

His nearest rival, the world's number one Janik Simner is out with a right knee injury and the likes of the French Open champion Alexander Zverev, the 24-time Grand Slam champion.

Yeah, yeah.

And they've had some hearings, but there's not this like, and I mentioned this to James Hansen as well.

I said, why is there still a debate on this? If Congress has the authority to hold an open hearing televised, maybe it's a week or two long.

Right.

All right.

In 1988, what major planetary milestone did NASA scientist James Hansen famously testify about before the U.S. Senate bringing the issue into global spotlight? Is it A, the discovery of water on Mars, B, the threat of asteroid impact, C, the greenhouse effect and global warning, or D, the depletion of the ozone layer?

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man 88 some similar themes there but i i want to i want to go that

This is a very different job to being Mayor of Manchester, where he did not have to pick winners and losers and he did not have to make difficult trade-offs.

But the joke at Westminster is currently on the wokest of woke BBC presenters who managed to mix up two black conservative big political beasts, there they are, James Cleverley, and Kwasi Kwarteng, without being cancelled.

Now, we wouldn't have got away with that, would we, Leo Curse? You would have been cancelled for that.

Leo is with me.

for all kinds of events and reasons that they didn't have before.

Remember James Hansen? He got together, I think it was 16 scientists, and they released, it wasn't very long ago, and it was about the fact, in fact, I have it right here.

It was NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said, is where he has been, and he now directs the program on climate science awareness and solutions at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

He and 16 other prominent climate researchers collaborated on a July 2015 paper in which, this is James Hansen, with them said, quote, if the ocean continues to accumulate heat an increased melting of marine terminating ice shelves of Antarctica and Greenland, a point will be reached at which it is impossible to avoid large-scale ice sheet disintegration with sea-level rise of at least several meters." And that was one of the headlines in the New York Times back in July when they released that paper saying, And Hanson said that he thought now, conservatively, that by New Year's Day 2100, that there could have been a 12-foot rise in sea level.

Well, that would take out at least half of Florida.

And this is not...

I think one or two more slides.

This is, uh, from James Hansen, his most recent communication.

Um, let me put us here because then you can see this final, uh, n- uh, data value of the equatorial Pacific 300 meter temperatures, which means that top 300 meters o- of the, of the tropical Pacific, of the, the equi- equatorial Pacific over, between certain latitudes, was record high, close to three degrees Celsius.

Um, I think that, yeah, it was July, the month of July.