Posted on 06/22/2008 7:07:11 PM PDT by redrunner
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.
Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech 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, 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.
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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...

Salem 2008.
MR. HANSEN! (BECAUSE YOU DON’T DESERVE THE RESPECT OF BEING CALLED DR.)
RELEASE ALL UNADJUSTED TEMPERATURE DATA AND A FORMAL EXPLANATION OF ALL METHODOLOGIES USED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION AT NASA TO ADJUST THEM. HAVE THE COURAGE TO HAVE YOUR THEORY SUBJECTED TO PEER REVIEW.
RELEASE IT HERE! RELEASE IT NOW!
Salem 2008!!! NO KIDDING!!! Insane!
--Wikipedia
Why is this jackass still working for the government and presumably promoting more whackos at Goddard?
Can't Bush fire any of these losers? It's not as if the envirowhackos will give Bush any credit anyway.
there is a guy at work that keeps spouting that ..put all the oil chiefs in jail....I ask him why and he say treason...I walk away after that
“will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature”
And let’s hurry up before the dolts get wise.
I thought liberals were OK with crimes against nature...
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
“actively spreading doubt”
so they want make charges of heresy. Its not science, its religion.
James Hansen is a “high crime against nature”.
All the evil old Marxists have repackaged themselves as Global Warmism gurus.
Their quest for power and blood is undiminished.
I am wondering if we actually LOST the Cold War?
....we’re paying this “scientist” millions of dollars for this. :D
Would you believe this guy probably also is a “our government did 9-11” buff? :D
I’m sorry, how smart are they again? I really need them to repeat it again because I keep forgetting...
Commissar Hanson is the primary climate change propagandist out there. He’s a disgrace, and NASA should be embarrassed.
Mr Hansen, can you tell me where oil comes from?
Ayn Rand nailed it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Put the Saudis on trial. This ain’t China for Pete’s sake.
Sometimes, the only thing I can think of to say when I read crap like this involves a lot of profanity.
Am I alone in that?
The title of this lies: Hansen is no scientist, he’s a propagandist.
I can’t say what I want to do to this moron and others just like him.
I suppose there will be a special jail for we Glowbull WarmRing Deniers.
It had better be very very large, because there are a heck of a lot of us.
I decided last week I am boycotting the green movement by doing exactly the opposite things they espouse.
At least in this country we have a Constitutional provision against ex post facto laws, now the Kangaroo Court World Court might be able to convict oil execs without the need for a law agianst what has always been legal.
I wonder how much research/grant money this clown gets to raise the bogus alarms. I wish someone would ask him why the polar ice caps are melting on Mars. Perhaps the sun is getting hotter.
Then we need to put ethanol backers on trial for the spike in food prices and people starving today.
And the only question is whether he'll be able to do it before the muslims kill us all.
Save the environment,
kill all environmentalists!
Nice thought!
And the only question is whether he'll be able to do it before the muslims kill us all.
If the Muslims kill us all, then the whackos win because we're evil for existing. And for being GW Infidels.
If the whackos succeed in having us living in mud huts and eating grass for sustenance, the Muzzies win because we'll be too weak to defend ourselves. And we'll be killed for being Islamic Infidels.
Gee, I see parallels here....
Hey, Hansen, tell it to the Chinese...then we’ll talk.
Perhaps you should ask him how he plans to drive his car to work after he does that......
Hansen needs to be locked up and put out of our misery.
“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”
Well, I guess Mr. Hansen has finally dropped the shields to let us all in on his intentions and his credibility.....
Thank you, sir. We _needed_ that!
- John
Sounds more like Stalinist Russia circa 1936 to me. What the left needs are show trials to direct blame away from themselves.
Funny to hear the moonbats say “treason” when they don’t even know what it means.
This clown is jealous of Al Gore and Michael Moore.
Hey dude, come up with an original scam to make a mint off of. Global Warming is so last year.
And yet we come off of a decade of non warming and the year of 2007 that cooled by .65C to .75C. All while continuing to put more CO2 in the air.
It's almost as if Hansen has no clue what he's talking about and it's just a global redistributions of wealth that they're after. Oh, wait, this is exactly what it is!
This guy has really gone off the deep end. NASA needs to fire him and the gov’t needs to get rid of his buddy Hathaway as well. Both have been proven wrong, time and time again with their predictions. Hansens GISS temperature numbers are deviating so badly from the other 3 accepted temp measurement standards that he is becoming a laughing stock in the scientific community. Speaking of being funded by ‘big oil’, Hansen is funded by yours and my tax dollars. We need to start a petition to have him removed from his position. I know the founder of the weather channel has been agitating for a lawsuit to get the facts about this new science, er religion of global warming out. This may be his chance.
No, not parallel, convergeance. The lines converge at the drive-by media.
Guys like this Hansen clown are too far beyond insane to even try to parody. The quest for ManBearPig isn't as far gone as this. He's 99% sure it's all over on the CO2 front? He's really that sure he's got the whole way the world works figured out? Really? Could there be more solid evidence of what a blubbering fool he is?
The oil company execs ought to show some balls and sue Hansen for slander.
It is horrifying that Marxism fell out of power in Russia, while it lives on in nearly complete control of US universities, the media, and the democrat party.
You should look sometime at the Communist Party USA website. It is now totally identical to the democrat party.
Global Warmism is one of the most successful US Communist sham fronts, to fool the sheeple.
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