There’s not a whole lot I can say about this, except that I’m looking forward to his retirement soon. Then, he can speak as a “private citizen” as much as he wants.
Here’s the full story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/06/nasa-scientist-climate-change?newsfeed=true
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He should be fired.
Stand up for yourself if you really mean it James.
This is why he is uttering gibberish these days:
http://globalwarmingskeptics.info/thread-14-post-6231.html#pid6231
Hansen says we have a moral duty to protect our children and grandchildren from disaster.
I agree, it’s our moral duty to protect our children and grandchildren from confiscatory energy tax burdens and other unsustainable social “welfare” programs.
how is this not a breach of his employment contract?
Slavery?
Oy vey!
Just like Mann , he does much good when for the people he hates the most , keep him in the public spotlight , encourage him to be more outlandish then sit back and enjoy the experience.
When your enemy is shooting themselves in the foot the worse thing you can do is try to stop them.
“We’re handing them a climate system which is potentially out of their control”. Does he really think that the current climate system is within our control?
Hansen should first go on a mission to China and convince them to cut and tax their CO2 emissions. What we do is irrelevant!
Of course, most of his preferred mitigations would simply do away with a portion of those future generations. Glad he’s so concerned.
Ah, yes. The old wealth redistribution, equal outcomes, socialist propaganda BS. Get a life, James.
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“Under this proposal, the carbon levy would increase year on year, with the tax income paid directly back to the public as a dividend, shared equally, rather than put into government coffers. Because the tax would greatly increase the cost of fossil fuel energy, consumers relying on green or low carbon sources of power would benefit the most as this dividend would come on top of cheaper fuel bills. It would promote a dramatic increase in the investment and development of low-carbon energy sources and technologies.
The very rich and most profligate energy users, people with several homes, or private jets and fuel-hungry cars, would also be forced into dramatically changing their energy use. In the new paper, Hansen, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and his colleagues warn that failing to cut CO2 emissions by 6% now will mean that by 2022, the annual cuts would need to reach a more drastic level of 15% a year.”
Where to start? Oh well….
“The very rich and most profligate energy users, people with several homes, or private jets and fuel-hungry cars, would also be forced into dramatically changing their energy use.”
nanananya Gore!
I propose a voluntary tax. If it is involuntary it is a tiny bit closer to slavery.
I like Steve Goddard’s take on it:
http://www.real-science.com/hansen-is-the-new-ehrlich
“Hansen has dropped any pretense of science. He now spends his days tampering with temperature records and running around making completely insane forecasts of doom.”
I’m not sure I agree that there was EVER any pretense of science. GISS seems more like an elaborate scheme to make his dreams of apocalypse come true, even if it means re-writing the entire temperature history to make it so.
James “If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is” Hansen.
This man is simply insane.
There’s not a whole lot I can say about this, except that I’m looking forward to his retirement soon.
Hansen started working at GISS in 1967 — he’s ‘way past the forty-year mark, and I know of gummint employees who hung on for *fifty-five* years. My take on it is that he knows the gravy train ends when his association with NASA does, and he won’t put his papers in until he becomes such an embarrassment that his boss forces the issue.
Earth to Hansen. The carbon tax window has closed. Go home.
Doomsayers, an old type of criminal now set to have impacts not just on the local tribe but upon all the people of Earth. A padded room needs to be reserved for this one before he does any more damage with his fabricated prognostications.
One and only one response: Where is Anthony’s red BS button when you need it?
In lieu of that, I can release my only response this way to Hansen’s equivocation:
. . . . . . Oh B***S*** !
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Why does he still have a taxpayer funded job?
Hansen’s obsession over CO2 in his later years is reminiscent of Linus Pauling and his obsession over vitamin C in his later years. It’s like they’ve lost their ability to think objectively as they’ve aged.
He is loved by the Chinese and here is why:
http://globalwarmingskeptics.info/thread-14-post-7812.html#pid7812
Hansen, you need to live what you are selling. Until then, what you say is just yada yada yada.
The racket is reaching a crescendo. The racketeers are falling on their swords. This passed peer review? I hope the well-known acronym ‘OMFG’ doesn’t get snipped…..he’s on a par with the smug and leering Ms. Norgaard. Come to think of it, it’s the same leer. The Guardian photograph is an astounding bit of glory art.
Someone is jousting with windmills if he thinks that we can manage the climate and hand it over to our children. A world wide tax system, no chance of that that god!
Hansen is finally showing his true Marxist color.
This has nothing to do with green, this is all about Red.