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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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To: 21twelve
Actually, I'm questioning his position as a scientist as he seems to be making all sorts of claims without any real studies to back them up. If Climate "Science" is a statistical science (quite similar to Social "Sciences" now that I think about it), there should be a fair amount of statistically based arguments to show correlation and to point to causality.

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.

81 posted on 06/23/2008 4:26:36 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
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To: redrunner

Expect to see many more “thought crime” trials once Obama (peas be upon him) becomes president.


82 posted on 06/23/2008 4:56:35 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Tom Manion '08-My only reason for voting this year)
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To: redrunner
Here's Hansen predictions from 1988 on global temperatures which he used in his 1988 Congress testimony. The actual GHG emissions ended up between Scenario B and C so we can see how far off he was (especially when the "Observed" line includes the latest drop in temperatures over the past year.


83 posted on 06/23/2008 6:54:06 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: stratboy
I wonder how much research/grant money this clown gets to raise the bogus alarms.

Teresa Heinz gave him a $250,000 'award' in return for supporting Lurch's run for the White House.

Science for sale.

84 posted on 06/23/2008 8:07:18 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: redrunner

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.


85 posted on 06/23/2008 8:38:44 AM PDT by omega4179 (Last year, Gore's home burned through 213,210 kWh of electricity,)
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To: redrunner

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”.


86 posted on 06/23/2008 9:16:48 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Lakeshark

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”..


87 posted on 06/23/2008 9:26:30 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.liberallunacy.bravehost.com..I'm a Patriot Guard Rider. www.patriotguard.org for info.)
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To: redrunner

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.


88 posted on 06/23/2008 9:32:37 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

“Such data, appropriately analyzed....”

That was the sentence that caught my eye.


89 posted on 06/23/2008 10:58:20 AM PDT by 21twelve (Don't wish for peace. Pray for Victory.)
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To: redrunner

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?


90 posted on 06/23/2008 3:20:52 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Travis McGee

I had a girlfriend in high school named Gaia... She was something else.... Ah.... I digress...


91 posted on 06/25/2008 7:50:52 AM PDT by redrunner (A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. -- Aesop)
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