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James Hansen doesn’t want you dealing drugs to his grandchildren
James Hansen, the director of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the man who some say brought global warming to the world, spoke on climate change and energy in Melbourne, Australia today.
Dr Hansen, of course, said the answer to climate change must include a rising carbon tax. And he also had something to say about coal.
I don’t intend to be telling Australia what they should do for their energy source except that they can’t continue to burn coal without screwing everybody – including my grandchildren.
And exporting coal, and increasing exports of coal, is almost equivalent to being a drug dealer to the world.
We wonder what he believes should be the punishment for these “coal dealers.”
You think Hansen would not be for putting “climate criminals” in jail? Well then, you don’t know the man, Did you know that he advocates a world without the current system of industrial civilization, with “no cities, no paved roads, no pylons, no offices or factories?” It’s true. This is what radical Keith Farnish writes about in his nutty book called Time’s Up!: An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis, and if you look at the back cover you’ll see Hansen recommends it, saying, “Keith Farnish has it right: time has practically run out, and the ‘system’ is the problem.”
If he’s willing to take apart cities, and returning to the middle ages, you better believe he has no problem making criminals out of coal dealers.
Source: The Age
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As anyone of average intelligence knows all HUMAN BEINGS are CARBON life forms, comprising of around 20% CARBON.
In the case of Dr. Hansen I think his 20% is ALL IN HIS HEAD….CARBON FOR BRAINS HANSEN NEEDS LOCKING UP ALONG WITH GORE AND THE REST OF WORLD WIDE CABAL OF CLIMATE CHEATS.
I have more respect for the unabomber than I do for Hansen. If Hansen truly believes this then he needs to lead by example and give up his job and move out to the middle of nowhere and forswear all modern fuels. Since burning wood results in CO2 he’ll need to find and alternate source to heat his cave. If he continues to live in a modern society then I’ll call him what he is a hypocrite.
Hansen should be careful about advocating prison for his enemies. The tide has turned he could wind up in jail for his “crimes”.
Hansen, It’s a real pity I didn’t know you were coming to my home town, because I would’ve come out in protest against you.
Hansen, have you read “State of Fear”. We’ll you remind me of that actor guy that sometimes plays the president. You know the guy I mean? The idiot that things everything primitive and natural is so beautiful? Hope the same end doesn’t befall you.
Hope your swim back home isn’t too tiring. An environmentalist like you would never catch a plane, would you?
Read Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. The main plot, although fictional, is about similar, though more explicit, megalomaniac philosophies.
Hansen indeed brought global warming to the world in 1988. This was the year when he testified to the Senate that global warming had arrived and that carbon dioxide was its cause. It was all part of a publicity stunt by Senator Wirth of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He had introduced an 18-part climate change bill and Hansen was to be the star witness to promote it. The original hearing was in November 1987 but it was cold, no one wanted to hear about warming, and the media just gave it a yawn. But if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, and he did. He called up the Weather Bureau to find out what the warmest day in Washington, D.C. was. It was June 23rd so he set that date for a new hearing. And to make sure that the air conditioning did not work he sent his staff out at night to open all the windows in the hearing room. It worked: the audience, the television crews and the star witness all sweated profusely and global warming was on every television screen that night. It had huge repercussions, provided part of the push for starting up the IPCC that same year, and became the rationale for Kyoto and Copenhagen conferences. When interviewed by Frontline in 2007 Wirth had this to say about the hearing: “…when the hearing occurred there was not only bliss, which is television cameras in double figures, but it was really hot…So it was sort of a perfect collection of events that day, with the wonderful Jim Hansen, who was wiping his brow at the witness table and giving this remarkable testimony…” It turns out that “this remarkable testimony” was false because there was no warming in 1988. Satellites have been measuring global temperatures since 1978 and what they find in the eighties and nineties is not a warming trend but a multi-year temperature oscillation, up and down by half a degree for twenty years. The global temperature curves from NASA, NOAA, and the Met Office however show that same period as a period of rising temperatures – that late twentieth century warming. These rising temperatures are faked. How they were falsified is described in “What Warming?” available on Amazon.com.
“no cities, no paved roads, no pylons, no offices or factories”
It actually means extermination of 90% of humans. Mostly through starvation and cold. But a good portion in wars, too. And, interestingly, it will be the developing countries who will suffer the most. Forgive me if I am asking a silly question, but isn’t open propaganda of genocide frowned upon in some places?
Oh, and just to be completely dorky: humans never lived in caves.
It would be fun to drop Hansen’s Dumb Ass off in the middle of the Hindu Kush. He could learn what it’s like to live off a paved road.
What a joke James, no one told you that you exaggerate a wee bit!.
Could it be that Dr Hansen is actually Ellsworth Toohey, the arch-villain in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead?
Our politicians listen to activists like this and believe he is right[GHU]
These people want to see the world as EDEN with a John Lennon simplistic view on life.
For most people life is just getting bye with none of the luxury’s that the Hansons and Gores have.
These activists ideas would have 80% of the population of the world freezing or starving with the rest defending themselves from them.
The world activists want passed bye 400 years ago with the end of serfdom,life was cheap, short and plagued with disease .
If hanson and his bretheren want to live like that ,pity,there is no room on the planet.
I’m embarrassed that people here in Australia still take this world class eccentric Hansen in any way seriously. Just an old hippie going to seed in a big way. I’ve glanced at a couple of his papers, truly bizarre stuff.
The media coverage of climategate in OZ is even worse than in UK/US. The national broadcaster is hypnotized by Hansenism/Lysenkoism and won’t let anybody say different. They’re still debating if it’s RESPONSIBLE to report the news.
Fortunately, the Aussie greens are so competence-challenged that the likelihood of any real changes to energy infrastructure or exports are vanishingly small. Latest scandal is the federal government plan to install roof insulation set fire to 90 houses. Your friendly house fire brought to you by the Dept of the Environment. You couldn’t make it up. So the enviros will just fantasise and twitter and preen and have lots of breakfast meetings in smart cafes; and we’ll sell lots of coal to China; as was always going to be the case.
Hansen is an example of what happens when you give NASA too much taxpayer funding. Just as NASA retires the shuttle fleet this year, the US is now wholly dependent on Russia to fly the space station’s six man crew to and from orbit, NASA’s Hansen is traversing the globe telling other countries thery are drug dealers because they use or sell coal.
Does anyone realise how embarassing the infiltration by the deluded green movement in science has become in the US? Hansen is a coward and an attention seeking fearmongerer and gives the scientific community a bad name. He is science’s chicken little.
Wow, an entire troll-blog and not just single comments. I wonder when there will be troll botnets…
ragnwald – is that intentional self-mockery ?
Anthony Watts over at Watts Up With That has a great piece from a while back on this charlatan –
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/
Hansen was in the offices of Enron conjuring up the cox,nox, Ch4 and sox greenhouse gas trading schemes. What a slut.
Hansen is an idiot that should have been fired by NASA man y years ago. Everytime hansen speaks I cringe that NASA still empluys this lying thief. This man will steal everything we have in the name of “global warmng” when in fact the worls is probably cooling Hansen is a lying snake that should be in jail for fraud. Why is it that people do not understand that this is the largest fraud ever perpetrated. All of these lying “scientist”, includiung Phil Jones and James Hansen, should be in a federal prison. Their assests shoul;d be seized as part of their re-imbursement for the billions of dollard they have received from our government with their lies and false claims. Can we as citizens sue the-ese assholse and garnish their wages untill they pass away?