, in which he details the last 10 years of fighting to get his voice heard above the climate change deniers in the Bush administration.Some of their tactics have become well-known over the years, but other tactics were completely new to me - like taking over NASA's press department and delaying the dates of press releases to suit their own political ends, or suggesting that if he gives a certain lecture then he'll be in breach of his government contract.
To his credit, Hansen isn't slow to detail his own shortcomings, in particular how he palmed off a lot of media interviews to his colleagues or how he found it almost impossible to write for a non-scientific public.
He's got better at the media handling and getting his point across over the years, and here he is answering questions from Newsweek readers:
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