Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him

Lucre Lucifer writes "The top climate scientist at NASA, James E. Hansen, says that the Bush Administration tried to silence him(NY Times) after he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth 'a different planet.' The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions."

Silenced!

[commodoresloat]

When I first clicked the link I got "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

Re:To be expected, of course, but...

[eclectro]

What's a NASA guy doing giving talks about earth-bound motor vehicles and the technologies to use?

Agreed. He is not a scientist, but a terrroist. I hope that the wiretaps are installed to monitor this unpatriotic and subversive behavior.

Re:Open and Shut

[Saven Marek]

> "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE GLACIERS ARE COMING!!!"

That would be a great public response. Should we wait until they are halfway up in the hills to tell them that's where glaciers come from?

Reversing Emissions

[bigjarom]

I tried to reverse emissions once, but it gave me really bad abdominal cramps.

Re:James Hansen...

[RubberDogBone]

I know I've heard this guy on George Noory's radio show from time to time.

No judgement made on the validity of his claims, but he's been on there.

Yeah, I sometimes listen in on my way to lunch at night. The guest topics help me decide what to eat. If it's ghosts, is time for Subway. If it's UFOs, it's time for a Chik-fil-a chicken salad. Climate change means the burrito from the gas station.

I wish this wasn't true.

This is great news!!!

[toomim]

We had been hearing for so long that Bush was ignoring scientists!

Err, "tried to silence"?

[mi]

Did he have to escape from a group of brownshirts in jackboots? Was he convicted as an enemy spy "attacking the Capitalist State and Social Order" and sent to a labor camp for 15 years? Perhaps, a fatwa was issued calling on the faithful to kill him?

No? None of that? Damn, this lousy government of ours. They can't even silence anyone!

Re:Open and Shut

[dgatwood]

Darwin: 1
Idiots: 0

Sounds like a plan. When do we start? :-)

Re:He's no silenced!

[Moofie]

"(they don't say anything about whether the Political Officer is usually armed)"

Wow! They don't say anything about whether or not the Political Officer sodomizes babies before eating them, either! What a shocking revelation!

Re:Who pays his salary, anyway?

[Moofie]

"hasn't been any less open"

Come on! You had an option for at least a quintuple negative there, and you totally blew it.

Re:Did you vote for Nader in 2000?

[Scarletdown]

So then, those of us who support Nader simply needed to convince those who voted for Bush that since a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, they might as well vote for Nader. (I think I lifted and modified this from a Jay Leno joke, if I remember correctly.)

Re:Open and Shut

[crimson30]

So, yes, a 20 foot rise WOULD sumerge a large part of Florida.

And this is bad?

Re:Did you vote for Nader in 2000?

[Scarletdown]

If that happens, then it will mean that George Lucas is a modern day prophet.

At least Bush doesn't have the ability to shoot lightning bolts from his fingers. (Actually, he would gain a couple approval points from me if he could do that, just for the coolness factor.) ;)

Venting?

[crawdad62]

I'm not sure why there's a big deal about the buildup of greenhouse gases. I thought the hole in the ozone was supposed to vent it off?

Re:To be expected, of course, but...

[ceejayoz]

Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?

If a guy shoots you non-fatally three times... are you going to go "SHOOT ME AGAIN! FINISH THE JOB!"?

Re:Silenced!

[Tablizer]

Certain lie:
"We found weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." --May 29, 2003

Well, they turned out to be catering vans IIRC, and fatty starchy food probably kills more people than any non-nuclear WMD's have so far since WWII.
       

Re:Bush accidentally tells the truth

[Meagermanx]

Wait. Those aren't lies...