Top 5 Environmental Newsmakers of 2008
Articles — By forcechange on December 29, 2008 11:00 am
Maura Judkis at Fresh Greens put together a list of the “Top 5 Environmental Newsmakers of 2008.” Here are her top 5, along with links to our own coverage of them:
1. Al Gore
2. James Hansen (since we didn’t cover Hansen this year, we’re copying Fresh Greens’ summary)
“Hansen, a leading NASA climate change scientist who first testified in Congress about the dangers of global warming decades ago, made headlines in the spring for two statements. The first was his research that set a goal of 350 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide to prevent Earth from going beyond the tipping point for catastrophic climate events, like rising sea levels. The second was his controversial statement that oil executives should go on trial for crimes against humanity for their involvement in climate change – a charge that was widely derided. Though the idea of trials may have been going too far, Hansen’s scientific findings are respected worldwide.”
4. Sarah Palin
5. Barack Obama
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