When is this t*rd of a public employee going to be fired for his incompetence/incessant politicing?  It has clearly been shown that his studies are consistently flawed in their assumptions and use bad/falsified data.  He has spoken out when he shouldn't have and has represented his biased opinions as those of the government.  All reasons to fire his a**.

comes out. We knew this was the real agenda of the climate change folks but he seems to be the first to actually say so. That is why this is really not a scientific issue but a political one. The true goal is to institute socialism or worse through the back door. Even though I am not of scientific bent I could tell the science really isn't there because of how the politics divided on this issue.  

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

 Like Rev. Wright, Mr. Hansen is preaching to Barack in the choir.  "The Redistributor" doesn't need any encouragement to separate Americans with jobs and income from their money and hand it over to the more deserving.  The catch is, if Hansen's plan can't be implemented to provide patronage jobs and government payouts to Democratic supporters, it's as good as dead. 

 "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula." -Muhammad

NASA had (has?) a planetary scientist (who's name I can't remember) who insisted that there was never any water on Mars.  He sat on the data from the Viking missions as much as he could and viciously derided any and all other scientists who dared to disagree with him.

When over a period of years his position became untenable he finally had to back down. 

You can also look at how Dr. Sagan, et al drew probably false conclusions about the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus as it could apply to Earth.  Two very different planets.  Those who want to tie in Venus' runaway greenhouse atmosphere with the current hysteria here maintain that there was as much liquid water on Venus at one time as on Earth.  Other sources maintain that H20 on Venus was always in vapor form...others that the water was at or near boiling.

My point about the water is that it got so hot on Venus because of a runaway greenhouse effect that the Venusian oceans boiled away...supposedly.

Being millions of miles closer to the sun, I don't think it takes a PhD to surmise that Venus didn't have the liquid water volumes that Earth did/does.  Also, our air is about 78% N2, 21% O2 and 1% other gases, mostly argon.  So less than 1% CO2 (and ozone don't forget) is supposed to be responsible for (rather than a symptom of?) climate change.

How many hits could a batter get by a single outfielder who never moves from his position?  How many IR rays could get by a single CO2 molecule, the nearest CO2 being in a stadium on the other side of town?

My point is that there is already tons of politics in science and when you put that into a gov't organization like NASA, how could you expect any less?  Also remember that the gov't is the single largest source of funding for scientific research.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

To me, there is little difference between Al Gore and Bernie Madoff.  Isn't there one conservative lawyer out there that can take Gore's words and use them to sue him in court?  Most of what he said, in his movie, has been proven false and yet we have our Congress poised to put this sort of tax on us.  They will be cheered, by the American media, because they have hooked into this thing with vigor.  The only stories coming out that dispute Gore are all coming from foreign press outlets.  

There is little doubt Gore is a shyster who has successfully conned the Church of England and the whole liberal establishment.  Now, will he use any of this money to bring his own house into line with what he wants everyone else to do?

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Dumbf@ck Hansen had to go and put this in his letter, "Coal plants are factories of death."

WHAT????????

Hey dumbf@ck, this is a factory of death, not this. 

There was a time when working for NASA meant your brain pan was seriously above average. Now, with folks like Hansen runnin the show there, it's seems that if these folks had their way, then NASA would be facin a staff shortage in no time. 

Anyways here's some more of the dumbf@cks thoughts;

Urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points, beyond which climate dynamics will cause rapid
changes out of humanity’s control. Concern about such behavior derives not from theory or speculation, but
from improving knowledge of how the Earth responded to past changes of atmospheric composition and from
observations of ongoing changes.
Tipping points occur because of amplifying feedbacks. Feedbacks include loss of Arctic sea ice, melting
glaciers and ice sheets, release of ‘frozen’ methane as tundra melts, and growth of vegetation on previously
frozen land. The surface changes increase the amount of sunlight absorbed by Earth. Added methane reduces
heat radiation to space, amplifying the warming effect of carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.
Analysis of Earth’s history helps reveal the level of greenhouse gases needed to maintain a climate
resembling the Holocene, Creation, the period of reasonably stable climate in which civilization developed.
That carbon dioxide level, unsurprisingly in retrospect, is less than the current 385 ppm (parts per million). The
safe amount for the long-term is no more than 350 ppm, probably less. Pre-industrial carbon dioxide amount
was 280 ppm. Precise definition of a safe range requires better knowledge of all climate forcing mechanisms.
What is clear is that continuing fossil fuel emissions will put Earth on an inexorable course toward an icefree
state, a course punctuated by increasingly extreme disasters with hundreds of millions of climate refugees.
A large fraction of species on Earth face certain extinction, if we burn most fossil fuels without capturing and
storing the carbon dioxide. New species may come into being over many thousands of years, but all generations
of our descendants that we can imagine will live on a far more desolate planet than the one we knew.

v Total carbon in conventional fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal), if released to the air, is enough to initiate a
dynamic transition to an ice-free climate state, a transition that would be out of humanity’s control. A large
fraction of the carbon dioxide emitted in burning fossil fuels stays in the air many centuries. Thus the climate
problem cannot be solved by only slowing the rate at which we burn the fossil fuels.
Solution requires that a large part of total fossil fuels is left in the ground, or the carbon dioxide captured
and stored. In addition, the unconventional fossil fuels (oil shale, tar sands, methane hydrates) must be left
largely untouched or the carbon dioxide captured and stored.

vi Now, with oil prices down, is when a hefty carbon tax should be added. In the future, when the price of
gasoline again reaches and passes $4/gallon, most of this cost will be tax, staying in the country, spread among
consumers, and driving our economy to a clean future. The public can understand this, if Barack explains it, and
they will accept it, if there is 100% dividend.

vii A carbon tax requires agreement of only several major nations. If any given nation does not apply the tax, an
equivalent duty can be applied to their products at ports of entry.

WOW!

One could write a thesis on just how demented an unsound logically this bullsh!t is. 

It would be laughable if there wasn't a good chance that his ideas would be implemented. 

Happy New Year everyone!

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis 1878-1937

Ask how spreading the wealth saves the planet? From what?

“Cap and trade” generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. 

Thank you Dr. Hansen for the two-fer.  He exposes the fallacy of the Cap and Trade and unknowingly outs why Dems love it ... kick backs.  Even he realizes that the public is on to them and a weakness we can exploit against the Dems, their temptation towards corruption.

The real gift of course is the de facto admission of the hidden agenda behind AGW.  Liberals typically reverse cause and effect like CO2 levels driving Temp. instead of Temp. driving CO2 levels.  The hidden agenda being re-distribution of wealth, i.e. Socialism.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

 Write every elected offical you can demanding that is moron be immedaitely fired.

I've been screaming about this, yet it only seems a handful of people get it. Global Warming regulation through either Cap and Trade or Carbon Taxes is nothing but State (Socialist) control over energy. By the time people wake the hell up it is going to be too late.

Global Warming: Socialism’s Trojan Horse (Eric Englund, MBA)

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

"...and those yet to be born."

Sorry, Mr Hansen - you're wasting your time here. These are the ones Obama definitely does not care about. They're above his pay grade.

I think the time has come for us realists to stop referring to the eco-Marxists, like the clearly discredited James Hansen, as "alarmists".  The expression is too soft, and it implies that they harbor good intentions.  They don't.  They exhibit all the survival traits of a tapeworm...subversively attaching themselves to superior organisms, then enriching themselves by draining from the host.  They produce no benefit (just detriment) to the body they populate.  Then when they can derive no other sustenance from the host (because its system has completely shut down), they worm their ways into a new victim.  In other words, James Hansen, Al Gore and the rest of that "climate change" mob are nothing more than common PARASITES...and should be treated as such.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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Hansen is as true a conservative as you will find on a government payroll. Rather than trying to deny his competence and integrity, a loser's gambit, it would be smart to try to move his position from tax-and-dividend to dividend-and-tax.

The difference is that if you put the dividend *first*, it will apply to already-existing fossil fuel taxes.

The weekly billions of dollars the public purse gets from these taxes are the wind in the sails of a number of groups that I suppose are not terribly popular here: antinuclear lobbyists and global warming deniers, for instance.

Divide government's oil and gas revenues out so they don't concentrate as disposable hundreds of dollars in millions of civil servants' budgets, and watch those so-called environmental groups dry up and blow away.

--- G.R.L. Cowan (How fire can be domesticated)

As usual, the "smart" people have it back-a$$wards. I think that Global Warming should be redistributed up here in the frozen North so that my heating bills are lower and I can save a little of my hard-earned wealth.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade