Professional climate denial took hundreds of millions from the CO2 industries, then slipped off their leash

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Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread)

I am not a climate scientist, but I am a scientist. I know how to read the literature and interpret the back-channels of scientific opinion; I can tell the difference between “this is what we suspect might be happening” and “this is what’s happening”. This is what’s happening: James Hansen was the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies from 1981 to 2013; he now runs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. For the last thir…