said the guy with all the moral fiber of a goat...
Posted on 04/06/2012 6:40:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Averting the worst consequences of human-induced climate change is a "great moral issue" on a par with slavery, according to the leading Nasa climate scientist Prof Jim Hansen.
He argues that storing up expensive and destructive consequences for society in future is an "injustice of one generation to others".
Hansen, who will next Tuesday be awarded the prestigious Edinburgh Medal for his contribution to science, will also in his acceptance speech call for a worldwide tax on all carbon emissions.
In his lecture, Hansen will argue that the challenge facing future generations from climate change is so urgent that a flat-rate global tax is needed to force immediate cuts in fossil fuel use. Ahead of receiving the award – which has previously been given to Sir David Attenborough, the ecologist James Lovelock, and the economist Amartya Sen – Hansen told the Guardian that the latest climate models had shown the planet was on the brink of an emergency. He said humanity faces repeated natural disasters from extreme weather events which would affect large areas of the planet.
"The situation we're creating for young people and future generations is that we're handing them a climate system which is potentially out of their control," he said. "We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction."
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Not a balls-out-for-the-moon, Apollo type of guy.
Gene Kranz: “You’re fired”.
said the guy with all the moral fiber of a goat...
Hansen, Gore and Mann — the Three Stooges of Climatology.
Nonsense!
That is far too small a comparison.
If we do not decisively deal with man-made Global Warming NOW, our galaxy, yes, the good ole Milky Way, will stop spinning!
Time will rewind!
Mankind will climb back up into the trees on the edge of the vast African savannah!
(need I say it? /SARC)
Hansen is certifiable.
...and Hansen is making sure we stay on Master Government’s plantation by keeping us scared of freedom by telling stories of the big, bad Manbearpig outside the plantation gates.
“Scientific” fraud is a crime on par with Bernie Madhoff.
Scientist my butt, he’s an activist.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Only in as much as those without morals are trying to enslave the rest of us.
We need to save the world for Muslims. They feel bad.
Yes.
He’s partially correct. Global Warming is about turning the masses into slaves as we are forced to labor to pay for nothing but the energy and food required to get us back to work tomorrow. Global Warming ‘scientists’ should receive the same treatment as concentration camp guards or slavers.
As they say in Merry Olde England, “He has gone ‘round the bend.”
And to illustrate the condition our world and its “thinkers” are in at this time, he’s going to receive AN AWARD FOR IT!
What's his contribution?
Gee, another village has lost it’s idiot.
It’s one thing to think those types of over the top statements in private ...it’s entirely different thing to publicly state them as a scientist....being promoted coming from NASA
In any other type of professional organization he would be fired....
Imagine the head of a billion dollar corporation stating such ridiculous things as Hansen .....he would be replaced post haste
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