Dr. James Hansen, now no longer on a leash under NASA policy, has started what I expect will be the first of many ugly comments and actions in his new role as activist.
Niall from Canada writes in asking for help from WUWT and the readership:
This Saturday morning Canada’s state broadcaster (the CBC) aired, on their weekly politics & current affairs show “the House”, a 15 min. ‘interview’ with James Hansen, in which he denigrated our Government as “neanderthal” in it’s approach to AGW, and that climate change science is “crystal clear”.
He also angled for a carbon tax (presumably to support his desired global wealth re-distribution scheme). I know you’re a very busy guy, but if you could formally respond in writing to the CBC, and indicate the gross errors Hansen voiced, and also post to your own site, many of us Canadian climate ‘realists’ would be very grateful for your help in exposing this grotesque charlatan.
Att’d is the link for the show, and the address to respond to.
Yours very truly,
Niall from Winnipeg
the Story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/26/pol-hansen-oliver.html
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Very unclassy to go to another country and call its government officials names while a guest. Also, unnecessary.
Just show people his boiling oceans video. Its so outlandish, few will believe him credible after seeing it.
Boiling oceans comment – 2:14 (128 seconds in)
Indeed what a terrible slur. Anyone using this to cast ugly aspersions should be publically condemned regardless of what ‘side’ they are on.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/08/letter-to-the-editor-a-wish-for-dr-michael-mann-to-clear-some-things-up-from-an-errant-psu-grad/
You have to feel sorry for him as he has lost this marbles
Hansen and the CBC share the same world-view. None of this is surprising.
Hansen will have a difficult time selling his Armageddon tale as the snows fall and the climate gets colder.
Let him feel unleashed. It will hurt his credibility and he’ll sound like a whining has-been wondering what happened to his previous stature.
It’ll be interesting to see the psychological toll that the skeptics have absorbed during the warming phase shift to the alarmists. I don’t think they’ll handle it as well, as they have a lot more to lose.
It will be interesting to see what the response is. I hope the CBC is open to receive comment and give it airing. I agree that Hansen coming in as a guest and slamming the country and/or government is shabby behaviour. Bringing in faulty science just adds insult to injury.
Well I don’t agree with Hansen at all, but a few days ago he was publically denigrated by Canada’s minister of natural resources, who asked that Hansen should be “ashamed.” That was uncalled for, and some sort of reaction was to be expected.
Perhaps some enterprising Parliamentary backbencher can file a hate speech complaint with the Canadian human rights commission. I would enjoy watching the jester-jousting adjuster jousting with a judge!
I guess pipelining the crude to the US will result in BAD emissions while pipelining the same crude to China will result in GOOD emissions.
I’m guessing that makes him Piltdown Man.
I guess “Neanderthal” is better than “dimwitted lout”, which is how Hansen has presented himself in my eyes.
The CBC despises this Conservative government, partly because they have been successful at making this country a better place to live. They can’t stand that their beloved liberals failed to accomplish even a half of what the Conservatives have accomplished.
They NEVER lose – they just move on to the next “world-wide human-caused mega-catastrophe” that MUST be stopped before GAIA is harmed and LOOK! A SQUIRREL! INJURED! BY CORPORATIONS! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! Please send $$, and quick! The squirrel is pleading for Gaia, won’t you please send all you can and quickly?
Hansen also admonished Slovenia for considering coal combustion as a means of meeting its future energy needs. I haven’t heard anything from him on Germany, however (despite several new coal plants coming on line in 2012) and he’s had only praise for China (apparently since he admires their top-down government – MUCH more efficient than democracy, you see).
Kurt in Switzerland
He is in the process of self distructing. Seen it before. After 4 arrests, NASA probably said you are past retirement age, so do so. Now he is impugning elected officials of other countries. Let it be.
He will finish himself his discrediting job without any help whatsoever. Well on the way.
Not the first time, nor the last, that a zealot got hoisted on their own petard.
A posterchild example of moral enterpreurship who create “enemies” so that they can lead the fight against them, and according to H.L.Mencken: The urge to save the world is almost always a false front to use it.
The reason why moral enterpreneurs are often successful may be explained by the Milgram experiment, in which people were prepared to administer lethal electrical shocks just by the power of authority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy#Enemies_as_a_function_of_social_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
More Canadians use the net proportionally than Americans, although affluent Americans rank higher as a subset. He’s talking to a country of roughly 33 million, where 28+ million are on the web using it for news and to verify stories in addition to email. As a country, Canada ranks in the top 10 educated globally. The US is 33. Also, Canadians are unlike Americans in that they won’t complain about his rude remarks, but they will be insulted by them. The last thing you do as an American is go up to Canada and swing your bat because you think you are superior. That’s why they instituted Made in Canada laws decades ago; they were fed up with ‘Ugly Americans’ acting like no one mattered but them.
Hansen is many things but he isn’t a hypocrite. He wants a carbon tax because he wants CO2 emissions stopped, not because he has some ulterior scheme for world government in mind. I don’t believe Hansen himself has given much thought to where the money from such a tax would wind up. Others clearly have however. Hansen as their naive and idealistic tool.
The Canadian Saint David Suzuki says all geologists who disagree with him are paid shills of the oil companies.
Canadians are used to the insults: the ex-colonials never escape their low-class past. Just ask an Aussie (use small words).
His comment about collecting carbon taxes and giving to the people says it all.
Goes in hand with the Australian music professor teaching in Austria who said that all those who deny man-made global warming were worse than murderers and should be killed.
policycritic says:
April 27, 2013 at 3:54 pm
More Canadians use the net proportionally than Americans, although affluent Americans rank higher as a subset. He’s talking to a country of roughly 33 million, where 28+ million are on the web using it for news and to verify stories in addition to email. As a country, Canada ranks in the top 10 educated globally. The US is 33. Also, Canadians are unlike Americans in that they won’t complain about his rude remarks, but they will be insulted by them. The last thing you do as an American is go up to Canada and swing your bat because you think you are superior. That’s why they instituted Made in Canada laws decades ago; they were fed up with ‘Ugly Americans’ acting like no one mattered but them.
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Now we can’t wait to jump into the sinking ship with ya, eh?
“Dr Hansen , you have been writing books since the 1960’s , each one has predicted doom for humans within 10 years. Each time you have been wrong in your predictions. Why should anyone believe a word you say when you have always been proven wrong by empirical evidence?”
Now that is a question someone needs to put to him.