Stopping the use of coal for electricity generation is the answer to halting global warming.
This is the view of an internationally acclaimed scientist, known as the `father of climate change’, who spoke at Massey University yesterday.
Dr James Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists and was in Palmerston North as part of a six-stop tour of New Zealand.
He was one of the first scientists to bring the world’s attention to global warming in the 1980s and was Director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Yesterday he spoke to a packed theatre for his public lecture, which centred on leaving coal in the ground and how to persuade governments to take action to reduce carbon emissions.
He said a major problem in the pursuit of lowering carbon emissions was communication.
“It’s difficult for people to recognise that we have a crisis, but we do,” he said. “Politicians just assume we can go drill all the fossil fuels on the planet … we can’t do that.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5004706/Axe-coal-to-halt-global-warming-scientist
The crisis is that Hansen can’t admit that he is wrong, and that he is having to fudge numbers to keep any shred of credibility.
one of the world’s leading climate scientists
They keep hammering on that, over and over. They try to influence people’s opinion not with data but by saying over and over, “one of the world’s leading…..”.
One thing they will NEVER do is talk about someone that actually is one of the leading climate scientists, if not the leading, in the world, Richard Lindzen.
Could this be the “Farewell Tour” for Chicken Little!
Religions survive for thousands of years after being proved clueless.