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Category: James Hansen
I usually ignore Examiner.com stories. For one thing, I can't tell exactly how it selects its stable of writers, whether they're paid anything particularly notable, or what standards are expected of them. The reporting and sensibility of the stories are erratic to say the least. But here's a fine job of blending several threads of news into a coherent essay (and that is what it is, for it appears to have involved no direct conversations between the writer and anybody - derived instead off what can be turned up, written by somebody else, on the internet). It's nearly a week old, but came up on the radar just now.
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Energy and Environment Daily's string of subscriber newsletters and daily story feeds, such as Greenwire and Climatewire, add up to one of the best operations of its sort. Most people never see them, as they are not at all cheap - thousands of...
For some years now James Hansen,...
For some years now James Hansen, one of the the world's more overtly political, anti-global warming scientists (he's terrified of it), has been urging world governments that can't break the deadlock over how, when, and whether to curb CO2 emissions to at least go after some other low-hanging fruit in the meantime. Here's one reference, from 2002, stemming from a report in PNAS. He said soot and methane are natural first targets. And Hansen, when he is not out pissing some people off for dropping the recommended scientific cloak of disinterested logic and instead just shouting at the world to wise up, is the...
Some may debate the continuing relevance of NASA climate...
Some may debate the continuing relevance of NASA climate scientist James Hansen in US policy circles. He is among the most strident advocates of a carbon tax, of a forced shutdown and fast of coal-fired electricity, and other muscular top-down measures nobody thinks can be sold to the public - not exactly a metric for essential merit but that's politics for you. Jim Hansen thinks cap & trade is a road to corruption and failure. To read some accounts (see this one from Energy & Environment Daily two years ago by Christa Marshall) he has in recent years by some opinion become a shrill crank of fading relevance. One (meaning I...
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