James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

http://www.ted.com Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.

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[Xavier Moutoux]

When we wake up to the truth, we will see all-out conversion to clean, renewable energy as an absolute necessity, the equivalent of WWIII. The plan is explained in *The Present* @ TruthContest (.) com, check it out, what this book says will blow your mind and turn our world right-side up.

[Canaana Bolaanan]

See, but he's a scientist and not a clown. So when you present your reality in such a backwards way, it's so easy not to take you seriously. Look up Climate . Nasa . Gov for what reasonable, intelligent people who understand science think about climate change. You might be shocked to find how out of the loop you truly are.

[PrairleDoggedRez]

Then if that did not have you cooking up bad dreams ~

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''Strong also said:
“Isn’t it the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

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Goodnight children it will be OK in the morning ( Not )

[PrairleDoggedRez]

Another bedtime story ~

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''Maurice Strong, U.N. Secretary- General, of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit quotes:

1992 at Rio
“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, ownership of motor vehicles and small electrical appliances, home and work-place air conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.”

[PrairleDoggedRez]

So Edenhofer was just telling a fairy tale then ? ~ perhaps he was just trying to scare the older children ~ or was he?

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

You're taking history out of context to make people look benign. It's dishonest to compare eons of random extinctions to the vastly accelerated extinctions caused by the only species capable of unnaturally manipulating nature.

In ancient epochs, the only extinction events that rivaled today's man-made ones were caused by asteroids, volcanoes and other unstable factors on a still primordial planet.

Look up "the sixth extinction" and pitch your false comparisons to biologists who know better.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

Are you claiming that Fourier, Tyndall and Arrhenius used time machines to collude with modern-day climatologists as part of a vast conspiracy to pretend that CO2 is actually a heat-trapping gas?

Yeah, that's surely logical.

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

Booker is a mindless Creationist science-denier. He carries no real acumen.

We have to get off of fossil fuels one way or another, so solving climate change is a win-win scenario. Peak Oil may do it for us. In fact I think it's the only thing that will. Oil will get far too costly to keep wasting. Most people are just drones who don't think much about future consequences, but they do pay attention to money when it hurts to spend it.

[Billy Athens]

watch?v=wlkB7LWo5eo

[youhtm12]

I would advise everybody to read the book: "The Real Global Warming Disaster", by Christopher Booker. Is the obsession with `climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history?

[PrairleDoggedRez]

Google 'Ottmar Edenhofer' redistribution of wealth via climate policy'

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This is their agenda ~ plain and simple and you are the ones footing the bill.

[HIGHLANDKING1]

Remember when Nasa used to do things? like land on the moon

but since the 60's we chose diversity and now talk about climate change...

its time to get the western world back on track - northwest front.org