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James Hansen, an atmospheric scientist and the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has long been the most prominent scientific advocate of the catastrophic global-warming theory. However, on June 23, Dr. Hansen took an unprecedented step to turn up the volume on his message: speaking before the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Climate Change, he called for the chief executives of large fossil-fuel companies to be put on trial for "high crimes against humanity and nature," accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies allegedly tried to hide the connection between smoking and cancer.
In an interview with the British newspaper the Guardian, Hansen said: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one of the primary players who have been putting out ...