Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him 543
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from the shush dept.
from the shush dept.
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! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To be expected, of course, but... (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:James Hansen... (Score:4, Funny)
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!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Err, "tried to silence"? (Score:2, Funny)
No? None of that? Damn, this lousy government of ours. They can't even silence anyone!
Re:Open and Shut (Score:3, Funny)
Idiots: 0
Sounds like a plan. When do we start? :-)
Re:He's no silenced! (Score:2, Funny)
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? (Score:2, Funny)
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? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Open and Shut (Score:3, Funny)
And this is bad?
Re:Did you vote for Nader in 2000? (Score:2, Funny)
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? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To be expected, of course, but... (Score:3, Funny)
If a guy shoots you non-fatally three times... are you going to go "SHOOT ME AGAIN! FINISH THE JOB!"?
Re:Silenced! (Score:2, Funny)
"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 (Score:3, Funny)