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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Fascist NASA Goddard Head Demands Oil Company Show Trials, Political Control

2008-06-23

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Jim still uses gasoline and heats his home, I wager ...

Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech ~~in his own mind~~ to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the 'perfect storm' of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.

Speaking before Congress again, ...

'Again?'
'Again, Senator.'
'Couldn't we do something less painful? Maybe subpoena the Vice-President?'
'He'll never appear.'
'Great, just great. What earmark do I have to vote for to make this peasant go away?'

he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. In an interview with the Guardian he said: 'When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime.'

He is also considering personally targeting members of Congress who have a poor track record on climate change in the coming November elections. He will campaign to have several of them unseated.

Sounds like it's going to be a real stemwinder ...

Hansen's speech to Congress on June 23 1988 is seen as a seminal moment in bringing the threat of global warming to the public's attention. At a time when most scientists were still hesitant to speak out, he said the evidence of the greenhouse gas effect was 99% certain ~~in his own mind~~, adding 'it is time to stop waffling'.

His sharpest words are reserved for the special interests he blames for public confusion about the nature of the global warming threat. 'The problem is not political will, it's the alligator shoes - the lobbyists. It's the fact that money talks in Washington, and that democracy is not working the way it's intended to work.'

'You should be listening to me! ME! ME-E-E-E-E-E-E!!!!!'

Posted by:Anonymoose

#17 Fascist NASA Goddard Head Demands Oil Company Show Trials, Political Control

AHEM: Hansen is not the head of Goddard Space Flight Center (in Maryland). He's the head of the NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. As bad as that is, it's not as bad him being the head of GSFC.

As I said yesterday, most of the people flogging AGW are actors, musicians, politicians, media pundits, and similar riff-raff. While there are undeniably scientists who study and believe in it, we don't hear from them as often.

Hansen is an exception, and I wasn't sure what to make of him, since he does hold a very respectable position.

Now I know: he's a clown, and I can disregard all further pronouncements from him.

Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-06-23 20:27

#16 This may be a pre-emptive strike, as Hansen is probably guilty of fraud (and if not fraud then widespread negligence)in compiling the GISS temperature data.

Climate Audit is all over Hansen's incredibly shoddy work.

Posted by: phil_b 2008-06-23 18:29

#15 NASA didnt used to be this way.

Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-23 17:54

#14 NASA is a socialist organization, should we be surprised when the leadership acts like a typical socialist?

Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-06-23 16:54

#13 Hanson needs to be out looking for a real job. He's already shown he has no professional integrity, and his approach to the scientific method is to decide what he wants to "discover", and manipulate the data until it agrees with his beliefs. There's no room for a man like that working for the government. Of course, if they got rid of all the "jim hansons" in the government, we'd have a half-trillion dollar surplus.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-06-23 13:43

#12 I wouldn't worry. Under President Obama they'll also want Bush-Cheney show trials, so I doubt they'll even have time for this.

Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-23 12:59

#11 Its a religion - every bit as fanatic about control and stamping out the unbelievers (by force if neccesary) as is Islam.

Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-23 12:53

#10 Remember when global warming was about scientific inquiry? Now its about dollars and jobs. Sort of like "The Children" and "Diversity" and "Victimization".

Posted by: Highlander 2008-06-23 12:26

#9 Yep, he is the busted party.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-06-23 11:34

#8 Sorry: Mann is responsible for the Hockey Stick fiasco. Just wanted to correct the comment a couple above.

Posted by: Ebbeamble Bourbon6576 2008-06-23 11:09

#7 NASA hasn't exactly covered itself with glory over the last 20 years either.

Posted by: RWV 2008-06-23 11:09

#6 Hansen doesn't have any special immunity as a NASA scientist, why don't the oil companies sue his ass for a laundry list of bullshit civil torts?

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-06-23 10:30

#5 St. James Hansen of the Fraudulent Hockeystick?

Posted by: Ebbeamble Bourbon6576 2008-06-23 10:24

#4 How DARE YOU contridict me! ME! Do you know who I am? I ~~lied~~ SPOKE BEFORE CONGRESS!

Someone summon the Human Rights Commission! I've been OFFENDED! HEADS MUST ROLL for this outrage!

Posted by: Channeling James Hanson 2008-06-23 10:21

#3 Hmmm...how about a tribunal like Galileo got, Pope Hansen?

Isn't this the dude who withheld data, derived as part of his government duties and therefore in direct contrivance of the Freedom of Information Act, that when backchecked showed a remarkable error in computation?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-06-23 10:04

#2 And we will fly in witnesses from all over the world in private jets, based upon the urgency of the case......heh.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-06-23 09:32

#1 It's the fact that money talks in Washington, and that democracy is not working the way it's intended to work.

Funny how that applies to your green movement and its messiah, Al Gore.

...put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature...

You mean like Canada's "human rights" tribunal? Where it is a show trial? 'cuz if your "facts" went against the other scientists facts, you would lose in a real court very quickly since most of your "facts" are just made up.

Nice to see Stalinism and fascism have come back into vogue.

Posted by: DarthVader 2008-06-23 09:31

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