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NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Quits to Fight Global Warming
2013-04-02 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate scientist James Hansen is retiring from NASA this week to devote himself to the fight against global warming. Hansen's retirement concludes a 46-year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, Hansen, 72, has become an activist for climate change, which didn't sit well with NASA headquarters in Washington. "As a...
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Hansen retires to push climate fight
2013-04-02 13:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: One of the leading voices on the science of global warming is to retire from Nasa this week to be more active in the fight against fossil fuels. Dr James E Hansen has been the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Research since 1981. He is sometimes called the "father of global warming" for his early warnings about the impacts of rising levels of greenhouse gases. But some critics say he has hampered the cause by overstating the risk. In the 1970s, Dr Hansen focused on studies and...
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James E. Hansen Retiring From NASA to Fight Global Warming
2013-04-01 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases. His departure, after a 46-year career at the space agencys Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, will deprive federally sponsored climate research of its best-known public figure. At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to...
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Food blogger takes mac 'n cheese dye fight straight to Kraft
2013-04-01 21:58:36| Food - Topix.net
Thousands of consumers have signed a petition urging Kraft Foods to stop making some of their most popular products with potentially hazardous dyes.
UPDATE 1-Jana questions Agrium broker payments in proxy fight
2013-04-01 21:04:18| Chemicals - Topix.net
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