NASA's Hansen Calls Out Obama On Climate Change 461
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from the there-are-no-deniers dept.
from the there-are-no-deniers dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Dr James Hansen, director of the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who first made warnings about climate change in the 1980s, writes in the NY Times that he was troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves 'regardless of what we do.' According to Hansen 'Canada's tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history. If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now.' Hansen says that instead of placing a rising fee on carbon emissions to make fossil fuels pay their true costs, leveling the energy playing field, the world's governments are forcing the public to subsidize fossil fuels with hundreds of billions of dollars per year."
New Global Warming Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Blame Canada!
Re:The problem no one will mention (Score:1, Funny)
If we were all vegetarian, we'd starve until the seas rose. There isn't enough arable land for that to hold up, and the carbon emissions from arable farming are *ridiculous*. Have you any idea how much oil it takes to produce a kilo of soya?
Re:The problem no one will mention (Score:4, Funny)
Besides we can always eat insects, algae, people, fungi. The list is end- what? I said we can eat insects, algae and fungi. Jeeze. Why are you looking at me like that?