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Expert delivers new climate warming to Congress

25 June 2008

On the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic speech to the US congress on global warming, the climate expert has called for oil firm bosses to be locked up for denying climate change.

The head of Nasa's Goodard Institute for Space Studies made a speech to congress two decades ago in which he spelt out the certainties on the greenhouse effect and climate warming.

This week, he will tell US politicians that it is almost too late to defuse the global warming "time bomb".

He will call for the next US president to wean the US off fossil fuels and call for research on new energy sources.

Ahead of his speech, he told the Guardian: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime."

Speaking before congress, he is set to accuse the bosses of firms such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of disinformation about climate change they may be spreading.

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