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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."
What's a NASA guy doing giving talks about earth-bound motor vehicles and the technologies to use?
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funny did you see the temp for Anchorage yesterday. -4. I doubt that's warm enough for crops.
Anybody who quotes that jackass Kos about the climate needs to have his head checked. The problem is we are not resposible for the current NATURAL warming period which began about 1900. It's fucking antural, get over it! Did you know that the Antarctic actually gains freaking gigatons of ice every year? Did you know we have more forest now than before?
Get your head out of the whole Rachel Carson 70's junk science and start doing a little research.
This guy is way out there
what does that have to do with "please move along"? dumb fucking idiot
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I'm sorry, but have you really just not been paying attention for six years? You really think this administration hasn't been any less open or transparent than others in recent memory?
Yeah, that was my point.
What's the news here?
You got PROOF of that bullshit statement? And I mean HARD evidence not "talking points"...
Lol, 8 replies and not a single shred of evidence posted (an unhealthy amount of conjecture though).
"Did you know we have more forest now than before?"
Before what? Before a thousand years ago? Before a hundred years ago? Before yesterday?
Oh and are you talking about the entire world or just your backyard?
I think you have been listening a bit too much to Rush Limbaugh. He once quoted a study showing greater forestation in a tiny little northeastern state to extrapolate to the entire world. He is too stupid to realize that once the north east was stipped of it's forests logging moved westward. So if you measured the forestation of a tiny little northeastern state after deforestation to now you would show a greater forest coverage (although still less then before the area was settled). Lucky for him his listenres are just as stupid.
So why don't you go and see how much of the world was forested a thousand years ago, 500 years ago, 200 years ago, 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 10 years ago, and 5 years ago and report me the trend.
Only a total ignorant retard thinks there is more forests today then there was a thousand years ago. Are you that guy?
evil is as evil does
Several Republicans did not like the number, 500000.
Soon afterwards, Shinseki was forced to retire from the army. Yet, the fiasco in Iraq proved that Shinsek was right -- all along. We needed 500,000 troops.
god damnit how did that get modded up so much? and all his other bullshit posts? the moderation system is fucked beyond repair
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