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 ...
As far as I know there is no such study using real data, only the use of Climate Model outputs. The assertions of Hansen would appear to be conjecture. The lamentations of AGWers would appear to be coming from visits to the oracles at Delphi.
Expect to see many more “thought crime” trials once Obama (peas be upon him) becomes president.
Teresa Heinz gave him a $250,000 'award' in return for supporting Lurch's run for the White House.
Science for sale.
I guess he did not get his own NASA’s memo that the pacific currents will cool the planet for 20-30 years! Global cooling is bad for crops and mankind.
Who was it that said all movements to “save the world” were nothing more than covers for ruling it? That’s starting to look true about the environmental movement. “We had to conquer the free peoples in order to save them”.
silly you..don’t you know it’s these people that will be the only ones with cars?? it’s us peons that have to “do what they say, not what they do”..
From Hansen’s bio:
“As a college student in Iowa, I was attracted to science and research by James Van Allen’s space science program in the physics and astronomy department. Since then, it only took me a decade or so to realize that the most exciting planetary research involves trying to understand the climate change on earth that will result from anthropogenic changes of the atmospheric composition.
One of my research interests is radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, especially interpreting remote sounding of the earth’s atmosphere and surface from satellites. Such data, appropriately analyzed, may provide one of our most effective ways to monitor and study global change on the earth. The hardest part is trying to influence the nature of the measurements obtained, so that the key information can be obtained.”
It is all in the phrase “ influence the nature of the measurements” part that makes me doubt his motives.
“Such data, appropriately analyzed....”
That was the sentence that caught my eye.
Hansens an idiot, but I`ll play devils advocate for a minute. If the oil companies really were hiding/manipulating data (and paying scientists to do the same), should they be permitted to get away with it? For instance, if a pharma company produced a drug, hid the dangers of it and lied about it`s safety, and the drug killed a lot of people, should they be charged with a crime?
I had a girlfriend in high school named Gaia... She was something else.... Ah.... I digress...
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