Global Warming Visionary To Speak At City Tech
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Dr. James E. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), will give a talk, “Human-made Climate Change: A Scientific, Economic and Moral Issue,” on Tuesday, May 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), 300 Jay St. The free lecture is open to the public.
In addition to heading NASA GISS, Dr. Hansen is adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Since the mid-1970s, Hansen has focused on studies and computer simulations of the Earth’s climate for the purpose of understanding the human impact on global climate.
He is best known for his congressional testimony on climate change in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. In recent years, Hansen has drawn attention to the danger of passing climate tipping points, producing irreversible climate impacts that would yield a different planet from the one on which civilization developed.