James Hansen

Biography

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 become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of climate change, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.

Known For

Everything's Cool

Climate Change: The Facts

Greedy Lying Bastards

Cool It

Sea Blind, the Price of Shipping Our Stuff

Valve Turners

All Movies (6)

• Valve Turners2024
• Climate Change: The Facts2019 · as Self
• Sea Blind, the Price of Shipping Our Stuff2016 · as Himself
• Greedy Lying Bastards2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cool It2010 · as Self - Director, NASA Institute for Space Studies
• Everything's Cool2007 · as Self (archive footage)