James Hansen's Political Science

IBD Editorials ^ | March 2, 2009

[Kaslin]

Climate Change: NASA's James Hansen leads a protest against a District of Columbia power plant in the middle of a snowstorm. Meanwhile, a scientist fired by Al Gore says we need to emit more carbon dioxide, not less.

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Speaking before Bill Clinton's Global Initiative in New York City last Nov. 2, Gore advocated the concept of civil disobedience to fight climate change. "I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore said to loud applause.

Following Gore's lead, a group called Capitol Climate Action organized a protest that took place Monday at the 99-year-old Capitol Power Plant in southeast Washington, D.C. Its Web site invited fellow warm-mongers to "mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired" plant that heats and cools the hallowed halls of Congress.

The site features Gore's quote as well as a video by Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a leading global-warming activist, urging attendance at the event. The storm that hit the Northeast and dropped upwards of three inches of snow on the nation's capitol should not discourage those attending the global- warming protest, he says on the video.

Hansen has called such coal-fired facilities "factories of death" and considers climate-change skeptics guilty of "high crimes against humanity and nature." In the video he says what "has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet" and that the "only practical way to solve the problem is to phase out the biggest source of carbon — and that's coal."

[lafroste]

I’ve been saying this for years. If we were to find a non-hydrocarbon energy source that could easily and cleanly meet all our needs, the environmentally responsible thing to do would be to dig up all the oil and coal and natural gas we could find and burn it anyway. CO2 is the building block of life. All the carbon removed from the biosphere needs to be returned to it. Perhaps that is Man’s real purpose. Perhaps the lack of CO2 is why there are few megafauna left.

[Chode]

was he a poly-si major maybe???

[sionnsar]

invited fellow warm-mongers to "mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired" plant that heats and cools the hallowed halls of Congress.

I'd be happy to see THAT plant shut down. Might slow Congress down a little...

[KTM rider]

here I am holding sign at a freeway on-ramp ....

"WILL WORK FOR CARBON CREDITS"

[xcamel]

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[Paladin2]

"An enthusiastic crowd of mostly young people marched from a park near the Capitol to the small power plant several blocks away, chanting "We don't want the world to boil, no coal, no oil!""

Good thing there was plenty o' snow there today.

[Jim Robinson]

Good point. Close the damn plant already!

[KTM rider]

isn't that inciting eco-terrorism ?

shouldn't AlGore be arrested by Homeland Security ?

[Kaslin]

As far as I am concerned.
Yes

[Grimmy]

It’s time for “civil disobedience” alright. I mean that in the most uncivil manner.

It is way past time to start stomping the stupid out of these humanity hating, socialist utopian mass murder loving scumbags. They are and have been causing real pain, misery and hardship for too long with out any repercussions at all.

[xcamel]

But they wont arrest him on what amounts to a terrorism charge...

Because that’s what “mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired” amounts to.

[Old Professer]

MTV’s report on the rally today:

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/03/02/thousands-of-young-people-flock-to-dc-to-make-energy-issues-a-priority/

[wendy1946]

Thatg recent statement by Japanese climate scientists appears to carry the weight of a position of the Japanese government. Assuming that to be the case, the idea of libtards simply going on with this crap as if nothing new had come to light is basically criminal.

[Paladin2]

Nah, All of our problems will be solved if we just move to a Si based biology.

[Paladin2]

Thanks, but the video was pretty much what I saw streamed live today from the “action” website. I was hoping for a cut of any speeches that might have occurred.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Trained Astronomer & Climate Superstitionist !

[Delacon]

ty

[The Duke]

I guess half a scientist is better than none.

[sobieski]

All talk, no action.

All hat, no cattle.

All computer models, no warming.