Hansen warns of Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms

James Hansen.

Listen/watch to the former head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, James Hansen,talk about “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms”.

Hansen, an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, 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, Hansen became a climate activist to mitigate the effects of climate change, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.