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Is Hanson insane or evil? He's certainly not simply misguided. I know he's an ideologue, so I'd have to say that he's got to fit into the evil category.

Man, the barbarians are at the gate and they're waving carbon credits. These people are clear and present dangers to the civilized Western world. Since every civilization is ultimately limited by its energy use, what better way to destroy it than to starve it for energy at the source? Zip into the mitochondria and stop the electron transport chain at the earliest stage and the mighty organism nearly instantly collapses and dies.

Anything that produces CO2 is too "dirty." Damming rivers is too "disruptive." Nuclear power is too "dangerous." Too bad someone couldn't come up with a relatively limitless supply of completely clean energy (nuclear comes the closest) because they would oppose this in a heartbeat as well. They would say that this energy source would need their regulation because it would result in hyper-accelerated use of other natural resources for individualized consumerism and weaken our communal bonds and the need for government to chart out worthy uses of our time and interests.

Is Hanson insane or evil? He's certainly not simply misguided. I know he's an ideologue, so I'd have to say that he's got to fit into the evil category.

He's insane and evil and extremely power hungry. He was caught red handed lying about the past two decades having all of the hottest years when the 1930s had quite a few

As to the stuff about the hottest years...Well, whaddya know! Turns out that's wrong, too. Figures from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) now show the hottest year since 1880 was 1934. Nineteen-ninety-eight dropped to second, while the third hottest year was way back in 1921. Indeed, four of the 10 hottest years were in the 1930s, while only three were in the past decade.
The real 15 hottest years are spread over seven decades. Eight occurred before the chief "greenhouse gas," atmospheric carbon dioxide, began its sharp rise; seven occurred afterwards

"Man, the barbarians are at the gate and they're waving carbon credits. These people are clear and present dangers to the civilized Western world ... Anything that produces CO2 is too "dirty." Damming rivers is too "disruptive." Nuclear power is too "dangerous." "

I suppose you didn't notice, but these barbarians have been at the gate for 30 years. I was in college with them when they were young impressionable liberals, and now they are running things. Back then they were anti-nuclear, anti-coal, pro-solar, and wanted us to live more simply with little to no heat and, instead of driving, have us take public transportation everywhere.

Global warming is simply their way of achieving their end, by claiming global catastrophe. Back in the 1970s they could not make this claim; they couldn't even claim their options were more economic.