Top climate scientist warns PM over 'contemptuous' Cumbria coalmine plan
Exclusive: James Hansen calls on Johnson to stop support for fossil fuels in letter ahead of UN climate summit
October 2018
Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’
James Hansen, ‘father of climate science’, accuses Britain of ignoring evidence
June 2018
Climate consensus - the 97%
30 years later, deniers are still lying about Hansen’s amazing global warming prediction
Dana Nuccitelli: Koch paychecks seem to be strong motivators to lie
November 2017
'We should be on the offensive' – James Hansen calls for wave of climate lawsuits
Veteran climate scientist says litigation campaign against government and fossil fuels companies is essential alongside political mobilisation in fighting ‘growing, mortal threat’ of global warming
October 2016
Environment blog
By failing to rein in climate change, our children's rights are being disregarded
James Dyke: A paper from the prominent Nasa climate scientist James Hansen reminds us of the debt young people face if we continue our high fossil fuel emissions
February 2016
Climate experts urge leading scientists' association: reject Exxon sponsorship
James Hansen, Michael Mann and Kerry Emanuel among more than 100 researchers voicing concern over firm’s ‘complicity in climate denial’
December 2015
John Kerry rejects leading climate scientist's claim Paris talks were 'fraud'
Kerry defends agreement after James Hansen, considered the father of climate change awareness, condemned talks over lack of potential for carbon tax
James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'
The former Nasa scientist criticizes the talks, intended to reach a new global deal on cutting carbon emissions beyond 2020, as ‘no action, just promises’
UN on wrong track with plans to limit global warming to 2C, says top scientist
Climate change scientist James Hansen says current ‘half arsed’ plans to reduce emissions will lead to dangerous climate change and calls for an honest carbon price to cut fossil fuel use
February 2015
NSW urged to ban new coal mines in the Hunter Valley on health and climate grounds
Renowned former Nasa climate scientist James Hansen among signatories of letter to the government calling for halt to mining expansion
July 2013
Earth insight
James Hansen: Fossil fuel addiction could trigger runaway global warming
Nafeez Ahmed: Without full decarbonisation by 2030, our global emissions pathway guarantees new era of catastrophic climate change
May 2013
Tar sands exploitation would mean game over for climate, warns leading scientist
Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist
April 2013
Canadian oil minister Joe Oliver condemns climatologist James Hansen
Political science
James Hansen retires from science to spend more time with his politics
January 2012
Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby
Letters: Perverting evidence-based policy on climate-change adaptation and mitigation damages our health resilience, our economic prosperity and our environmental stability
December 2010
Ratcliffe activists found guilty of coal station plot
Ratcliffe coal trial: James Hansen gives court a crash course in climate change
November 2010
Climate change protesters' anger was justifiable, says Nasa scientist
Professor James Hansen tells court governments are not telling truth about climate change
June 2010
UK government's environment adviser wins major international green award
Professor Bob Watson, science adviser to the environment ministry, chosen alongside Nasa's James Hansen