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Anatomy of a bad decision: Obama's embrace of offshore drilling was made by limiting scientific and environmental input

Two of President Obama's top environmental advisers told a panel investigating the cause of the BP oil spill Wednesday that they did not provide the environmental and scientific basis for the administration's new five-year plan expanding oil and gas drilling off the nation's coasts.

I was not a fan of Obama's decision to allow drilling and/or exploration off much of the U.S. coast on energy, environmental or political grounds (see EIA: New offshore drilling will lower gas prices in 2030 a...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...