Whoo-boy. NASA’s James Hansen disses McKibben in an email to an NYT reporter. Hansen was speaking candidly, never thinking this email would see the light of day. But that’s not the punchline…
Hansen on the highly inflated 350.org Keystone XL protest this weekend, in an email to NYT’s Joe Nocera:
“Yes, I know, the merits of this continuing activity may be dubious, but Bill is working his butt off so hard that I can’t refuse.”
Interestingly, Nocera thinks Obama should approve the Keystone XL pipeline saying:
And the climate change effects of tar sands oil are, all in all, pretty small.
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In fact, this should be a no-brainer for the president, for all the reasons I stated earlier, and one more: the strategy of activists like McKibben, Brune and Hansen, who have made the Keystone pipeline their line in the sand, is utterly boneheaded.
LOL!
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Up here in Alberta, there are conventional oil wells that are not connected to a crude oil gathering system. In these cases, the crude is trucked to the refinery.
Now, if one of those trucks crashes and there is an oil spill, the “environmentalists” demand that the affected area be immediately dug up and every last drop of contaminated soil be trucked to a soil cleaning depot, where the crude is extracted and the clean soil is put back in its original location.
Isn’t that exactly what the oil sands companies are doing right now at one of the world’s largest natural “oil spills” ?
Yet, that is a no-no.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Thank you.
Congratulate Hansen on a good point, but don’t overpromote it.
Consider “Even the Surgeon General thinks hot dogs taste good”. Does not mean the SG is backing down from recommending a high fibre diet.
Ridicule is the only response for these loonies, using the truth to ridicule their hypocrisy even more fun;
The Athabasca Bitumen deposit being the biggest natural oil spill known to man.
The Peace and Athabasca Rivers flow through this deposit any contaminants collected get carried through the Mackenzie River to the Beaufort Sea.
Oil is modern civilization, if you truly protest oil use, stop using it yourself.
If a minor fuel spill must be cleaned up in panic, as the authorities now insist with diesel fuel home heating tanks, why and how could the oil sands be exempt?\
In the emotive terms of the eco-…….: We Canadians are cleaning up Gods Oil Spill, What you want to prevent us cleaning up an oil spill? What kind of planet hating never-do-well would want us to stop?
Anthony summed up the AGW “campaign” in two words..
Purposefully mendacious.
Someone else here made a point here which is my second favorite.
Something about how the alarmists have been relying upon constant attributions of observations to warming that has not yet occurred.
S. Borenstein had a post recently on what’s really behind the push to prevent Keystone.
http://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/whats-keystone-xl-got-to-do-with-it/
“Let’s face it. The opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline isn’t about dirty oil. It’s about oil. James Hansen and the other leading opponents focus on the GHGs that will be released when all of the oil in the Canadian tar sands (Canada’s relabeling as “oil sands” just hasn’t stuck with me) is extracted, refined, and consumed in vehicles and other uses.
Sure, on a lifecycle basis getting your oil from the
oil sands creates 14%-20% more greenhouse gases than from the average source. But the bottom line is that saving 14%-20% of GHGs on what will never account for more than 5% of world oil supply isn’t going to change world GHG emissions by even 0.5% in any year. (Remember that crude is less than half of GHG emissions.)”……………..
“Yes, I know, the merits of continuing the Killing Fields may be dubious, but Pol Pot is working his butt off so hard that I can’t refuse.” – Brother number 5 James Hansen
“Yes, I know, the merits of continuing the death camp operations may be dubious, but Himmler is working his butt off so hard that I can’t refuse.” – Reichsführer-SS James Hansen
“Yes, I know, the merits of this Marxist Agitation may be dubious, but Bill is working his butt off so hard that I can’t refuse.” – Useful Idiot James Hansen
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Can we also expect, that when he finally recants years after he retires, that he will defend his actions by claiming that he was just following orders? Or that he saw nothing, and was unaware of what was actually going on?
Hansen = a fool, an imbecile of the first order, and a cruel joke.
The comments at the original NYT article and disinformation spouted there by ignorant eco activist New Yorkers is appalling.
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HELP,PLEASE.
Is there some organization that could help restore Dr,John Daly pages?
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