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."

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To be expected, of course, but...

[PornMaster]

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

Re:My Conspiracy Theory: American Agribusiness

[jb_02_98]

I don't know if there is a conspiracy or not...but I would like to inform you that global warming isn't "a reality." Most of the data collected comes from cities, which will have a higher temperature simply because of people and that the materials used for building/roads/sidewalks/etc. retain heat better. Everything from a cold spot on the earth to a hot spot has been blamed on global warming. Records are set everywhere all the time. Record highs and record lows. The truth is this, we haven't been keeping records long enough to know what's going on. It's like the "drought" in southeast idaho...many people complained until they realized that they do live in a high-plains desert and it just happened to be particulary moist when they came into the picture. From what I've seen, global warming is a scare tactic so that some people can gain support from the crowd that doesn't think on their own. It makes good news and they get the popularity. Frankly, I don't think that us humans have enough power to change what's going on in a large scale. The earth is going to do as it pleases without taking into consideration what we want.

Did you vote for Nader in 2000?

[Anonymous Coward]

Admit it: you fucked up. Big time. There was a huge difference between Bush and Gore. Voting for Nader was a vote for Bush. You just didn't have the courage to accept the ugly reality of politics in 2000 because as an over-read liberal, you wanted your candidate and your party to be more authentic than the plastic show that made you gag. You were too pampered and vain to lower yourself to vote for Gore, and you're the reason why America is in the shit-hole it's in today.

Re:hellz yeah

[/dev/trash]

funny did you see the temp for Anchorage yesterday. -4. I doubt that's warm enough for crops.

Re:Open and Shut

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

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.

Re:Silenced!

[Mahou]

what does that have to do with "please move along"? dumb fucking idiot

Re:Who pays his salary, anyway?

[pomo monster]

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?

Re:Who pays his salary, anyway?

[pomo monster]

Yeah, that was my point.

So the Bush administration silences a critic

[QuietLagoon]

What's the news here?

Re:Who pays his salary, anyway?

[LegendLength]

This is why people in the government are being silenced when they speak about things that upset George Bush and/or his friends.

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).

Re:Open and Shut

[killjoe]

"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?

Eerie Resemblance to Case of General Eric Shinseki

[reporter]

The attempt to silence the climatologist at NASA bears an eerie resemblance to the fate of General Eric Shinseki. If we rewind back to 2002 (or 2003?), General Shinseki testified, before Congress, that Washington would need about 500,000 troops in order to win the war and to succeed at occupying Iraq.

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.

Re:Silenced!

[Mahou]

god damnit how did that get modded up so much? and all his other bullshit posts? the moderation system is fucked beyond repair