This guy?
Posted on 03/23/2006 8:51:01 AM PST by george wythe
The scientist touted by CBS News' "60 Minutes" as arguably the "world's leading researcher on global warming" and spotlighted as a victim of Bush administration censorship on the issue publicly endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president and received a $250,000 grant from the charitable foundation headed by Kerry's wife.
Scientist James Hansen has also admitted that he contributed to two recent Democratic presidential campaigns. Furthermore, he acted as a consultant in February to former Vice President Al Gore's slide show presentations on "global warming," which Gore presented around the country.
But Scott Pelley, the "60 Minutes" reporter who profiled Hansen and detailed his accusations of censorship on the March 19 edition of the newsmagazine, made no mention of Hansen's links to Kerry and Gore and none on the fact that Kerry's wife -- Teresa Heinz Kerry -- had been one of Hansen's benefactors
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I am shocked! Shocked I tell you.
Wait, wait, wait... What are they implying here? That we shouldn't expect that everyone who appears on 60 Minutes isn't a democratic shill?
I mean, come on, three donkey faces shown in the opening credits - it should be pretty obvious that you're about to see the DNC talking points for the week.
Holy disclosure, Batman, you'd think SeeBS would be a little more careful after getting Burned by Burkett.
Hansen is another leftist, tree-hugger wack-job.
The dems don't think like us. They hold us to the standard of truth but their concept is more utilitarian, i.e., truth is whatever serves their purpose.
It's a serious pathology. I pray they never regain control of this Country.
Nope. No bias there. Nope. Nada.
CBS is no more biased than the DNC.
CBS "news" is a political organization, with political operatives running a 24/7, decades long political campaign.
They should be sued for campaign violations, and false advertising.
The Little Ice Age lasted for 500 years and only ended in 1850. Ya think the earth might warm up for a few years?
Clearly we have no control over this phenomenon and CO2 limits will have no impact.
The greenhouse gas with the greatest impact on temperature is 'water vapor'. How ya gonna limit that?
Global Warming is a scam. Nothing anyone can do about it.
This guy is more dangerous than your average shill. He argues that using Chicken Little scenarios to scare the American people 'may be appropriate':
"Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue," Hansen wrote in 2004. "Now, however, the need is for demonstrably objective climate-forcing scenarios consistent with what is realistic under current conditions."Patrick J. Michaels, the author of several books on climate change, including the recently published "Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming," declared that Hansen has "advocated the use of exaggeration and propaganda as political tools in the debate over global warming."
Michaels, who leveled his charges in a Feb. 21 commentary entitled "Hansen's Hot Hype," wrote that "Hansen thought the public should be subjected to nightmare scenarios regardless of the scientific likelihood of catastrophe, simply in order to gain people's attention."
Glow-ball warning for the gullah-bull.
There was as thread yesterday about a poll showing Democrats to be unhappy. Listen to any of them talk about "how we're 'destroying' the environment" and "I don't want to bring children into a world like this" and such and you can see why. Nattering nabobs of negativism, all.
He wrote that "we predict additional warming in the next 50 years of 3/4°C +/- 1/4°C, a warming rate of 0.15°C +/- 0.05°C per decade."It seems like nature has its longterm cycles, so the global temperature might go up and down every century.
Even if we are in a warming trend, it's foolish to argue that we must change the natural cycle. We might screw up something else in the Earth natural balance.
This guy?
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