# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-e-hansen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:46:53.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-e-hansen"
name: "James E. Hansen"
slug: "james-e-hansen"
description: "James Edward Hansen is an American climatologist. He is an adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years, he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of global warming, on a few occasions leading to his arrest."
tagline: "American climatologist (1941-)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump