In 1988, James Hansen warned Congress that there was a “very strong case” that climate change was having a major impact on weather. Hansen, who is still the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, tells Cenk Uygur, “Neither party wants to offend the fossil fuel industry. They want to win the election, and they know the power of the fossil fuel industry. You can’t turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there’s more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries.That’s of course not true. But they’re hammering that into the voters’ heads.”
