Former NASA lead ‘global warming’ scientist James Hansen on UN summit: ‘It’s a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-hansen-climate-change-paris-talks-fraud
Mere mention of the Paris climate talks is enough to make James Hansen grumpy. The former Nasa scientist, considered the father of global awareness of climate change, is a soft-spoken, almost diffident Iowan. But when he talks about the gathering of nearly 200 nations, his demeanor changes.
“It’s a fraud really, a fake,” he says, rubbing his head. “It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.”
The talks, intended to reach a new global deal on cutting carbon emissions beyond 2020, have spent much time and energy on two major issues: whether the world should aim to contain the temperature rise to 1.5C or 2C above preindustrial levels, and how much funding should be doled out by wealthy countries to developing nations that risk being swamped by rising seas and bashed by escalating extreme weather events.
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But, according to Hansen, the international jamboree is pointless unless greenhouse gas emissions aren’t taxed across the board. He argues that only this will force down emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst ravages of climate change.
Hansen, 74, has just returned from Paris where he again called for a price to be placed on each tonne of carbon from major emitters (he’s suggested a “fee” – because “taxes scare people off” – of $15 a tonne that would rise $10 a year and bring in $600bn in the US alone). There aren’t many takers, even among “big green” as Hansen labels environment groups.…
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Varney asks Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano: Obama said we are currently at the “highest level of carbon for 800,000.”
Morano: “Studies have shown that 10,000+ years ago levels may have been similar levels.
If you go back further in the geologic record, we have had ice ages with carbon dioxide higher.
There is no correlation with CO2. There are hundreds of factors impacting climate. Technically Obama is correct, but it does not mean anything. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it is overwhelmed by other factors and you cannot distinguish CO2’s impact from natural variability whether you are talking temperature, sea level, extreme storms. There is no climate signal when you look at that.
And there is actually a new survey showing that the alleged 97% of climate scientists who endorse Obama’s climate view drops to under 50% when they are asked if CO2 is basically the control knob for the climate. He is wrong in his implication, but he is technically right on his one fact.”
Obama claimed hottest years on record?
Morano: “No. Right now, the satellite data today shows we are at 18 years 7 months (new record length) the global warming pause has continued. When they claim a ‘hottest year’, they are talking about hundredths of a degree different between these years. The error margin is tenths of a degree. In other words, there is no way they can make the ‘hottest’ year claim scientifically. And they actually admitted it. NASA said there is only a 38% chance of the claim being accurate. The Associated Press had to actually retract these claims of 2014 being the hottest year. It’s statistical nonsense.
We have warmed up until the end of the 20th century and then it stopped since late 1990s. So any claims about it being the hottest years are based on measurements that are immeasurable. You cannot distinguish between years.
NASA’s former lead global warming scientist James Hansen came and said this plan is ‘practically worthless’ and he said ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’. Obama’s own EPA chief admitted it would have no impact on global temperature let alone impacts on global CO2 levels. It’s pure symbolism. So even if you believe Al Gore and Pres. Obama’s science views, this EPA …
Fmr. NASA Scientist James Hansen: Obama’s climate policy is ‘practically worthless’ – ‘You’ve got to be kidding’
But for some who study climate change the only shame is this: Obama’s plan does not go nearly far enough. It’s meek and dangerously self-congratulatory, sapping the movement of urgency while doing almost nothing to maintain the future habitability of the earth.
“The actions are practically worthless,” said James Hansen, a climate researcher who headed NASA’s Goddard’s Institute for Space Studies for over 30 years and first warned congress of global warming in 1988. “They do nothing to attack the fundamental problem.”
“You’ve got to be kidding,” he wrote, when asked if the plan would make continued climate activism unnecessary. Obama’s plan, and for that matter the proposed plan Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, he continued, “is like the fellow who walks to work instead of driving, and thinks he is saving the world.”
Hansen suggested a gradually rising fee for fossil fuel extraction, collected at the port of entry or, in domestic cases, the place where the material actually comes out of the ground. “As long as fossil fuels are allowed to (appear to be) the cheapest energy, someone will burn them,” he wrote in an email to msnbc. “It is not so much a matter of how far you go. It is a matter of whether you are going in the right direction.”…
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Former Top NASA Scientist James Hansen Predicts Catastrophic Rise In Sea Levels – ‘Projects sea levels rising as much as 10 feet in the next 50 years.’ – The paper has already ruffled some, including Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein, who said on Twitter that he would not cover it — primarily because it had not yet been peer-reviewed, a process that allows other scientists to critique the work. The Washington Post’s Chris Mooney asked other climate experts to weigh in on the paper. While many said it raised key discussion points, Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research called it “provocative and intriguing but rife with speculation and ‘what if’ scenarios.”
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