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NASA's Hansen Rails Against Coal At Fringe Left-Wing Event
businessandmedia.org ^ | April 23, 2008 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/23/2008 3:49:10 PM PDT by Rufus2007

It was a night filled with anti-corporate protests, anti-Bush comments, folk songs and the president of the Hip-Hop Caucus bellowing about America’s “illegal war” in Iraq. Welcome to the 2nd Annual “Climate Super Rally” featuring NASA’s Dr. James E. Hansen.

“Our addiction to oil has caused millions to be displaced,” liberal activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. said, one of the event’s speakers. “And thousands – close to millions to lose their lives in this illegal war.”

Not exactly typical climate change rhetoric. But Hansen was one of three headliners and his message was designed for the “super rally.” He played to crowd and said the battle was the fossil-fuel industry against “young people and nature.”

Hansen is one of the most-often cited scientists warning about the alleged dangers of climate change. Although he has claimed he was “censored” by NASA, he has been featured repeatedly on network news shows and in The New York Times. Former Vice President Al Gore has referenced Hansen on several occasions, but Gore has also called for a more cooperative approach to the environment – a stance which conflicts with the “super rally.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: algore; coal; energy; globalwarming; hansen; jameshansen; nasa; oil
Wow, James Hansen at a left-wing crazy event on Earth Day. Go figure.
1 posted on 04/23/2008 3:49:10 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Hansen is a socialist goofball. Time to defund NASA, if he’s the kind of animal they put in charge of things there. Get that pig’s head out of the public trough.


2 posted on 04/23/2008 3:53:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

It is NOT time to “defund” NASA.
He is a radical kook and even Adminstrator Griffen disagrees with much of what he says.

NASA satellite data looks like it is debunking much of the globalwarmongers anyways.


3 posted on 04/23/2008 3:58:03 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Rufus2007

That puke`s taken money from Soros.

He`s biased, fire his ass ASAP.


4 posted on 04/23/2008 4:07:14 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Someone needs to explain to these kids that they are going to be hungry, cold and on public transportation for the rest of their lives while working as indentured tax slaves if they continue to support the anti-carbon agenda.

I have no idea how to undo the decades of inculcation they have absorbed, though. Perhaps when their parents tell them that they can no longer support them due to the high energy bills, high food prices, losses of financial industry jobs and losses in retirement investments they will have an epiphany. If they have to work for food and rent maybe they will see the light.

Hansen isn’t as insulated as ALgore. Hopefully, he will be forced by climate reality and the inconvenient truths of carbon caps and ethanol to slink under a rock somewhere and shut up.


5 posted on 04/23/2008 4:13:23 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Capitalism is what happens when governments get out of the way.)
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I have no idea how to undo the decades of inculcation they have absorbed, though.

You can't. None of us can. I have written off most anyone born after 1990 as a bad investment.

6 posted on 04/23/2008 4:15:47 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Rufus2007; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

7 posted on 04/23/2008 4:17:01 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: reformedliberal
Time is on the rationals side with all this.

I think you will see global warmongers getting quite shrill in the years to come because they will be confronted more and more with facts that conflict with their propaganda, spin and dogma.

8 posted on 04/23/2008 4:20:18 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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It's all over except the shouting. 90% of humans are 100% given to a cult of one sort or another. Committed to the point of rejecting reality.

Since 2001 insanity has grown to where it now saturates every aspect of life. This is what OBL has wrought. It is the plague, black death.


9 posted on 04/23/2008 4:27:44 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: reformedliberal
Someone needs to explain to these kids that they are going to be hungry, cold and on public transportation for the rest of their lives while working as indentured tax slaves if they continue to support the anti-carbon agenda.

Something tells me that this generation will backpedal on this very quickly if anything is ever enacted that really bites them in their pocketbook or lifestyle.

10 posted on 04/23/2008 4:46:27 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: Rufus2007

Can’t this putz be fired? Obviously his radical stance has to color his job decisions.


11 posted on 04/23/2008 5:58:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats - Stupid is as stupid do)
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“If we had a moratorium on coal-fired power plants within the next couple of years and then phased out the existing plants between now and 2030, then ....

Then the US will be a 3rd world hell-hole in permanent depression long before 2030.

All the money remaining in the economy at that point wouldn't be enough to build even one over-priced, inefficient wind mill.

Hansen is more than a Junk Scientist. I'm convinced he wants to destroy this nation.

12 posted on 04/23/2008 7:26:40 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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Huge surprise there. /s


13 posted on 04/23/2008 8:08:13 PM PDT by Horusra (Conservative > Republican)
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To: Rufus2007
Hansen used the event to attack the use of fossil fuels, specifically the coal industry, advocating government action to force the complete phase out of coal CO2 emission by 2030.

Is he promoting new uranium mining, processing and reprocessing so we can increase the number of nuclear plants in operation?

14 posted on 04/24/2008 5:16:23 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Yup, Soros Stooge posing as a NASA member. Fire him, sue him, and put him in custodial confinement.


15 posted on 04/24/2008 5:21:51 AM PDT by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I don’t think they can fire Hansen...but as I’ve learned via the Air Force...when you have one colonel who is a problem...you crowd him up with a dozen other new colonels and redefine the original guy’s job. You put the problem guy in a position where he has to compete for funding for lesser projects on his plate. The fact that he’s there to waste time on earthly issues....I’d have a dozen new guys to start programs related interstellar travel, climates on Mars, black holes, meteor issues, etc. Crowd up the Hansen circle so he has a lesser empire.


16 posted on 04/24/2008 11:26:59 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Hansen should be arrested and tried for treason (or perhaps for crimes against humanity), found guilty, and hanged.


17 posted on 04/25/2008 12:08:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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