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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
The Guardian ^ | June 23, 2008 | Ed Pilkington

Posted on 06/22/2008 7:07:11 PM PDT by redrunner

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call 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 blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.

Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading.

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His sharpest words are reserved for the special interests he blames for public confusion about the nature of the global warming threat. "The problem is not political will, it's the alligator shoes - the lobbyists. It's the fact that money talks in Washington, and that democracy is not working the way it's intended to work."

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; cizik; climatechange; co2; congress; crazy; environment; environmentalist; globalwarming; houghton; jameshansen; liarsforjesus; liarsforscience; moonbat; oil; scientists
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"The problem is not Political will"????? Are you kidding me... The leftist political will is dominating this debate in the drive-by media and the like... This guy wants to shut up anyone who disagrees with the Global Warming Ideology... The truth hurts the liberal agenda...
1 posted on 06/22/2008 7:07:11 PM PDT by redrunner
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I say put some scientists and politicians on trial..
OH! and ex-politicians...
2 posted on 06/22/2008 7:09:36 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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"high crimes against humanity and nature!"
3 posted on 06/22/2008 7:09:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists idiots...
4 posted on 06/22/2008 7:10:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Salem 2008.


5 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:02 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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MR. HANSEN! (BECAUSE YOU DON’T DESERVE THE RESPECT OF BEING CALLED DR.)

RELEASE ALL UNADJUSTED TEMPERATURE DATA AND A FORMAL EXPLANATION OF ALL METHODOLOGIES USED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION AT NASA TO ADJUST THEM. HAVE THE COURAGE TO HAVE YOUR THEORY SUBJECTED TO PEER REVIEW.

RELEASE IT HERE! RELEASE IT NOW!


6 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:43 PM PDT by DeltaZulu
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Salem 2008!!! NO KIDDING!!! Insane!


7 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:59 PM PDT by LearnN2speak
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James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa) heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies[1] in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Earth Sciences Division.[2] He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, and also serves as Al Gore's science advisor.[3][4]

--Wikipedia

Why is this jackass still working for the government and presumably promoting more whackos at Goddard?

Can't Bush fire any of these losers? It's not as if the envirowhackos will give Bush any credit anyway.

8 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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there is a guy at work that keeps spouting that ..put all the oil chiefs in jail....I ask him why and he say treason...I walk away after that


9 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:12 PM PDT by Gone_Postal (We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat)
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“will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature”

And let’s hurry up before the dolts get wise.


10 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:19 PM PDT by vets son
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high crimes against humanity and nature

I thought liberals were OK with crimes against nature...

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

11 posted on 06/22/2008 7:14:36 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I'm taking Grandma's advice and I'm holding my nose, John, stop sticking your finger down my throat.)
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“actively spreading doubt”

so they want make charges of heresy. Its not science, its religion.


12 posted on 06/22/2008 7:14:56 PM PDT by motor_racer (Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.)
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James Hansen is a “high crime against nature”.


13 posted on 06/22/2008 7:16:01 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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All the evil old Marxists have repackaged themselves as Global Warmism gurus.

Their quest for power and blood is undiminished.

I am wondering if we actually LOST the Cold War?


14 posted on 06/22/2008 7:17:01 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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....we’re paying this “scientist” millions of dollars for this. :D

Would you believe this guy probably also is a “our government did 9-11” buff? :D

I’m sorry, how smart are they again? I really need them to repeat it again because I keep forgetting...


15 posted on 06/22/2008 7:17:54 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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Commissar Hanson is the primary climate change propagandist out there. He’s a disgrace, and NASA should be embarrassed.


16 posted on 06/22/2008 7:18:25 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Mr Hansen, can you tell me where oil comes from?


17 posted on 06/22/2008 7:18:26 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right.)
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Ayn Rand nailed it.


18 posted on 06/22/2008 7:19:01 PM PDT by saganite
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Does James Hansen know that 85% of climate scientist do not believe the climate change is man made?
19 posted on 06/22/2008 7:20:15 PM PDT by kempo (h)
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James Hansen and his ilk want to drive us back to the Stone Age. And they're not kidding, folks.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

20 posted on 06/22/2008 7:20:24 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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