NASA leader warns of climate change disaster.(News)

Waste News, November, 2006

Byline: Bruce Geiselman The likelihood of Congress passing meaningful climate change legislation in the next few years is improving as the public learns more about the issue, said James Hansen, one of the nation's top climate change scientists. However, he expressed frustration that certain members of Congress and the media are delivering what he considers confusing and conflicting messages about global warming.

Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and NASA's top climate change scientist, has often found himself at odds with members of the Bush administration and climate change skeptics in Congress. "There are members of Congress now who make patently absurd statements about climate change and our lack of knowledge...

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