James Hansen in Parliament today
James Hansen, NASA scientist, is in Westminster today to give evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee on the impact of current science on climate policy. It’s being billed by new group Climate Safety as “one humdinger of a debate” between, in the red corner, Hansen and researcher Tim Helweg-Larsen of the Public Interest Research Centre, as they go head-to-head with, in the blue corner, Professor John Beddington and Professor Robert Watson, both Chief Scientific Advisers to the UK Government. You can watch it live at 2.30pm on Parliament TV.
Hansen has had a busy week in the news and on the blogs, particularly for his letter to Obama. It’s been critiqued as alarmist on a number of skeptic blogs, such as SkepticsGlobalWarming and CO2Sceptic, but not only from the sceptical side of the debate. Joe Romm of Climate Progress also critiques Hansen, and splits from his conclusion that are firmly behind the 350.org call for change (he’s one of their identified ‘messengers’: More »
There was lots of coverage of Al Gore’s 
