Abstract

Sometime after the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, «Equilibri» interviews James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Hansen had foreseen the risks of global warming for the first time in 1981. He has developed one of the first climate models in the world. Today Hansen is fighting on the front line, using scientific data as persuasion tools. In the interview he discusses how to reduce the effects of global warming, he criticizes the cap-and-trade approach, supports the fee-and-dividend system and accepts fourth generation nuclear power.