James E. Hansen is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute, where he directs the Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions Program. In 1995, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and, in 2006, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and was designated by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth. He is the author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (Bloomsbury, 2009) and more than 100 scientific articles on climatology and global warming.
