New James Hansen talk from 10 October

Here is a new talk by James Hansen on climate change and tipping points. It has been uploaded by Cornell University.

Dr. James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute addresses 75 international union leaders about the urgency of the climate crisis. The presentation was given in NYC on 10/10/12, and was part of the Energy Emergency, Energy Transition round table convened by Cornell University's Global Labor Institute (GLI), a program of the Worker Institute at Cornell, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

James Hansen talks to a very young economist

This is James Hansen talking to a very youthful-looking interviewer from The Economist. I am assuming the interviewer had not been born when Hansen gave his well-known testimony to a committee of the US Congress.

The interview is 7 and a half minutes long. Hansen has his loaded climate dice and he talks about how extremely low the probability of recent extreme weather events would be if there was no trend of global warming.

Hansen also puts the case for a carbon price as a market-consistent policy that still lets markets decide the allocation of resources between competing uses. He warns that failure to adopt a steadily rising carbon price will inevitably lead to intrusive and additional Government regulation in order to achieve the same aim.