A year ago, I wrote to Gordon Brown asking him to place a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in Britain. I have asked the same of Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd and other leaders. The reason is this – coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.
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Carbon dioxide would increase to 500 ppm or more. We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher
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Yep, totally independent and impartial truth seeker Jimmy Hansen
“…coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.”
Coal is our way out. Economically our people are hurting. Poverty kills. Abundant energy cures poverty. The only way we can advance as a civilization is through abundant energy.
Hansen developed his ideas in the 1980’s. None have been proven to be true. The burning of coal adds very little to the 3.6 trillion tonnes of Co2 in the atmosphere.
The amount of coal burned is in the billions of tonnes. This is trivial compared to the trillions of tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere. Besides, the half life of atmospheric Co2 is only 7-9 years according to Bomb experiments.
Fritz
Right on Suyts, I could not agree more, but what are we going to do with socialists such as John Holdren holding the top “scientist” position in the US Government?
“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States…De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation…Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”
There seem to be so many nuts in leadership roles today in our Government. Kind of scary. I still can not see how anyone in that administration would try to fire Dr Hansen who for all intensive purposes is a conservative compared to Holdren.
Hansen should have been fired years ago for violating general ethic standards. (A government employee should not be engaged in
civil disobedienceillegal activities against the very government that gives him a check. They didn’t and now he’s achieved iconic stature among many. No one is going to fire him anytime soon, although again, they should have when he took cash awards for his advocacy.I am afraid that Hansen is as mad as J. Holdren. Both should be put in a specialist hospital.
If Hansen thinks that 500ppmv is excessive he is completely ignorant of the geological past
Hansen seems to move from clear thinking to certifiable in a matter of seconds.
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/hansen-was-right-in-part-for-once/
And the UK government have agreed to this mad-man’s request. They have stipulate that any new coal plants must include carbon capture and storage – a non-existent technology which, in the unlikely event it could be made to work, would render coal power stations almost as inefficient and expensive as wind or solar – except without all the tax-breaks and subsidies.
China or India must be laughing uproariously that stark raving lunatics like Hansen, McKibben, and Holdren are able to influence the public debate about energy and environment in America.
Of course our manufacturing and invention capacity has been almost completely outsourced to those countries, so they must also see this as merely the predictable denouement and not anything surprising.
James Hansen gets arrested every so often it appears.
He writes letters to world leaders presumably with NASA on the letterhead.
Presumably he plays these games while on company (taxpayer) time, while using taxpayer funded equipment and bandwidth.
Normally you would be fired, yet he is not. It is things like this that makes people want to just shut down NASA completely.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to FOIA every NASA correspondence between James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt?
Nah. Imbecility is.