6/20/10, $550,000 award to Hansen in Tokyo, praised for influencing government policy, "Climate scientists awarded prestigious Blue Planet Prize," Environment News Service, Tokyo
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George Bush the First was a great help to Hansen's career.
- George Bush Sr (the father of George W Bush), who was then running for president,
- promised to “fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect”.
(Of course George Bush #1 signed up for anything 'global.' ed.)
Hansen has received at least $900,000 for influencing governments to make policy based on his failed 'climate' theories, in 1982 saying that by 2050 we “would approach the warmth of the age of the dinosaurs.” James Hansen should have been removed from his taxpayer funded job long ago. The following article is just an update on Hansen and his activities.
- 1/4/11, "Tax on carbon: The only way to save our planet?," Independent UK
- "I'm writing a paper to provide the scientific basis for [law] suits against the government – just to make them do their job," he says.
Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world's leading climate scientists, has not always been as politically engaged as he is now. He had hoped that politicians would respond to the scientific community by taking action to minimise the risks from climate change. ...Now with just a small window of opportunity left in which to stabilise our climate before it slips out of our control, he has been
- busying himself with writing to key heads of state around the globe,
- advocating civil resistance against the coal industry and
- getting himself arrested while campaigning against mountain-top removal coal mining.
After his famous testimony before a Congressional committee in 1988 that human-induced global warming had begun, Hansen
- spent the next 15 years turning down most requests for talks and interviews, preferring to focus on research. "...
"In 1989, "Called before a congressional committee hearing looking at climate change, he sent an
- advance fax to Al Gore, its chairman,
suggesting some of the questions that he would like to answer.
- “What I told them was that the written evidence submitted in my name did not contain my words. It had been rewritten by the president’s own budget office to support their own agenda.” (This is in dispute, ed.)
This time the resulting storm was so great it saw climate change catapulted into the political arena as never before.
- George Bush Sr (the father of George W Bush), who was then running for president,
- promised to “fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect”.
(A big omission in this article about Hansen's story. ed.)
(continuing): "He overcame his reticence in 2004, when he became angered by the Bush administration's political interference in climate science. He was seized by the need to ensure the public had the facts about the risks posed by climate change, but he also
- became outspoken on policy issues, crossing a line that many scientists steer clear of.
"I realised that if we [scientists] don't help to connect the dots from what the science says"...
- (Note: The term, "the science" can mean anything but is used here to mean a particular computer devised outcome. Original data are not available for independent, non-governmental verification. In any case the main goal is to punish evil Americans and subjugate them to organized crime called 'world government'. In addition, Hansen's theory has already proved false, as in 2008 he said, "recent warm UK winters were clear sign" of global warming. The opposite is being said today. ed.)
(continuing): "to what the implications are for policy, then those dots get connected by people who have special interests," says Hansen, explaining his decision.
- "I think scientists are able to be objective. ""...
(continuing): "Governments just don't face the facts clearly. And it's scary because as scientists we can see what the implications are for our own children and grandchildren."
At a time when many scientists are on the back foot after the pre-Copenhagen attack on the climate science initiated by the release of internal emails by researchers based at University of East Anglia, it's a brave position to take. It's also one that was recognised in 2006 when the American Association for the Advancement of Science honoured him with its Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for "his courageous and steadfast advocacy in support of scientists' responsibilities to communicate their scientific opinions and findings openly and honestly on matters of public importance".
In 2008 he published a landmark paper along with some ten co-authors, "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" which redefined our understanding of what constitutes dangerous climate change. Its conclusion that we need to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 390 parts per million (ppm) to below 350,
- set the stage for a global campaign to put the number 350 at the heart of international climate policy.
By the time of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009, a majority of more than 100 countries had signed up to the target....
At the UN talks, the rich countries..."
- (Who exactly are the "rich countries?" America is bankrupt and guaranteed to get worse by huge debt placed on it. Who are the "rich" countries? ed.)
(continuing): "still had high expectations that markets in carbon dioxide" would play a central role in the final deal agreed in Durban, South Africa at the end of 2011. Carbon markets, or what's often called "cap and trade", provide access to "offsets" for rich countries which allow them to buy in carbon reductions from developing countries instead of reducing emissions within their national borders.
- However a 2008 Stanford University study found these supposed carbon cuts to be largely illusory....
For some time Hansen has been on record slamming this approach. He says that in talks with officials in the UK, the US, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Japan and Netherlands, government representatives all say they will bring down emissions by using carbon markets. "You can prove that this is horseshit because they're building more coal plants. The fossil-fuel industry wants to continue with something close to business as usual and that is what they get with cap and trade and with offsets. But governments are supposed to be operating for the benefit of citizens not for the benefit of powerful industries that have money.""...
- (The "powerful industry that has money" is the organized crime of one world government, hedge fund/banking/Munich Re types all making billions and on tap for trillions via something that does not exist, global warming. Why did the Saudis lobby heavily for Pachauri to be head of the UN Climate group? Obviously so they could be in on the money from the beginning. ed.)
(continuing): "Hansen's solution is a framework built around the introduction of a carbon tax in both the US and China, and he has recently turned his attention to focusing on the
- benefits to China from adopting this approach."...
- including banking the dollars to use as they please.
- And if the UN places conditions on China they threaten to expel more noxious gases into the atmosphere (item near end of Yale article). Hansen is either mentally deranged or just part of the happy world crime scene. ed.)
(continuing): "China has every reason to tax carbon because they have invested a lot in carbon-free energy. They're now number one in production of solar, wind and nuclear. ...They can see that economically they will be better off if the world starts to move towards clean energy, as they will be in a great position
- to sell these technologies to the rest of us.
They want to solve their air pollution and water pollution problems; they don't want to have the fossil-fuel addiction that has the United States
- sending soldiers all around the world;"...
(Hansen says Communist China is #1 in nuclear power. The US does not get a drop of oil from Iraq, so the idea that soldiers were sent there to do so is false. The issue is irrelevant anyway as the US declines to build new "clean" nuclear power like others do. ed.)
(continuing): "they don't want to suffer the climate damages because they are much more vulnerable than most countries."
Hansen's idea is that 100 per cent of the revenue collected from a carbon tax is returned in equal amounts to citizens, "...
- (This is false. The money is taken by government. Government believes all tax money belongs to them. It "redistributes" it when, if, and to whom it pleases. ed.)
(continuing): "which means that those with lower carbon footprints are likely to be better off. In his latest book, Storms of My Grandchildren, Hansen says that Congress liked cap and trade because "it thinks the public will not figure out that it is a tax" and a tax in which energy companies and financial speculators reap the dividends.
Daphne Wysham, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies think tank...figures that campaigners in the US have two years to start educating the public about the benefits of "tax and rebate" before the political complexion of Congress shifts again. In the meantime she's bullish about the potential for US action. ...But however the political climate changes, and
- despite the shifting sands of globalisation,
Hansen will be using his expertise to try and avert a toxic timebomb for our descendants and their planet."...
- (The article ends with a promo to buy Hansen's book even though he is a proven fraud. In 2008 he said "recent warm UK winters were clear sign" of global warming. The opposite is being said today. ed.)
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Reference: 2/ 10/08, "Climate scientist they could not silence," TimesOnlineUK, Jonathan Leake - =====================================
- James Hansen has won at least $900,000 in prize money for influencing governments on global warming issues. He also deserves credit for getting the first George Bush elected and influencing his policies:
6/22/10, $100,000, In Norway, received the annual Sophie Prize for helping improve "understanding of human-induced climate change" and its potential threat to the planet.3/5/2001, $250,000 Heinz Award (aka 'Ketchup Money'), praised for making (alleged) science into a political issue against industry, cites special merit for doing so against George Bush - James Hansen has won at least $900,000 in prize money for influencing governments on global warming issues. He also deserves credit for getting the first George Bush elected and influencing his policies:
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- James Hansen says he owes it all to the NY Times who in 1981 put him on the front page.
- 2009 Hansen published a book released right before the Copenhagen climate summit, "Storms of my grandchildren: The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity"
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- George Bush (the first) cemented Hansen's fame in 1989 by using the catastrophic 'greenhouse effect' to sensational advantage as he campaigned for US president.
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- Global warming by no means settled:
- Reference: 11/29/09, "Climate change data dumped," TimesOnline UK, by Jonathan Leake
- Reference: 8/2/10, "Comment on a Washington Post editorial, "The truth about global warming," --Another media disconnect," by Roger Pielke, Sr.
We have reported on this in peer-reviewed papers (e.g. see) and on this weblog (e.g. see and see).
As Phil Jones himself has reported (see Section 7)
“The raw surface temperature data from which all of the different global surface temperature trend analyses are derived
- are essentially the same.
- The best estimate that has been reported is that 90–95% of the raw data in each of the analyses
- is the same (P. Jones, personal communication, 2003).”
- Reference, 9/20/10, "Candid Admissions on Shortcomings in the Land Surface Temperature data, [GHCN] and [USHCN] at the September Exeter (UK) Meeting" by Roger Pielke, Sr.
- First, outside of the USA, there is inadequate (or no) publicly available information on station histories,
- which reaches up
- there are undocumented issues.
While the organizers of the Exeter meeting are seeking to retain its leadership role in national and international assessments of the
- observed magnitude of global warming,
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- Reference: 1/22/10, "CRU was but the tip of the iceberg," Marc Sheppard, American Thinker
12/13/10, "‘Perverse’ CO2 Payments Send Flood of Money to China," by Mark Schapiro, Yale Environment 360
From above Yale 360 article: "Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase have significant holdings- in the credits linked to the gas."...
- global 'carbon market' could collapse.
8/1/2003, "Can we diffuse the global warming time bomb," Natural Science, by James Hansen- From above, Hansen writes: "Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue,"...(page 6)
- 7/24/09, "Insurance and reinsurance in a changing climate," Encyclopedia of Earth, Canada Institute of Woodrow, V. Haufler
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- See text about 1/4 down page under 'The Issue,' report said to be by AP in email from Tom Wigley to Phil Jones. Pachauri was said to be the choice of the Saudis, fossil fuel industry, and George Bush. Everyone was in on the con.
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Nov. 2007, Wind turbine installedby George Bush Sr. (a fan of Hansen's) on his Kennebunkport property. Portland Herald,
Milton photo. top photo of George Bush Sr., Hansen's benefactor.
via Climate Depot, Tom Nelson, Real Science
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