James Hansen

Columbia University

Guest

Adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University; former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

James Hansen on KCRW

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A Wake-Up Call for Slow Moving Disaster

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