FESTIVAL FOR THE PLANET

A People’s Assembly on Climate Change

with NASA scientist James Hansen

 SAT 21 MAY 2011 .

Are you interested in travelling to Auckland to attend the Festival for the
Planet this coming Saturday? As well as an address from leading climate scientist, James Hansen, there will be some primo entertainment and an opportunity to share ideas on climate change with activists from around the country.

Please contact Mike Findlayson to arrange car-pooling from Kaitaia (or points in between) via email (click on link above) or call him on 09 4093077.

James E. Hansen: NASA Scientist, Activist, Government Advisor

James E. Hansen is one of the world’s top climate scientists. He has been head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth Sciences Division since 1981. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. His 1988 testimony on climate change to US congressional committees was instrumental in helping raise broad awareness of global warming. His scientific statements on the issue were censored under the Bush administration and in recent years he has become increasingly outspoken about the lack of progress at a political level and the urgent need for action.

Hansen has been arrested several times for his environmental action and his book ‘Storms of My Grandchildren’ is one of the defining popular texts on the issue of climate change.

The festival will also be addressed by New Zealander, Jim Salinger, a lead author for the IPCC and former NIWA emloyee.

For more information about the festival, click on http://planetfestival.org.nz/ 

FESTIVAL FOR THE PLANET: A People’s Assembly on Climate Change with NASA scientist James Hansen

SAT 21 MAY 2011 .

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