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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
The Guardian ^ | June 23, 2008 | Ed Pilkington

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; cizik; climatechange; co2; congress; crazy; environment; environmentalist; globalwarming; houghton; jameshansen; liarsforjesus; liarsforscience; moonbat; oil; scientists
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"The problem is not Political will"????? Are you kidding me... The leftist political will is dominating this debate in the drive-by media and the like... This guy wants to shut up anyone who disagrees with the Global Warming Ideology... The truth hurts the liberal agenda...
1 posted on 06/22/2008 7:07:11 PM PDT by redrunner
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To: redrunner
I say put some scientists and politicians on trial..
OH! and ex-politicians...
2 posted on 06/22/2008 7:09:36 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: redrunner

"high crimes against humanity and nature!"
3 posted on 06/22/2008 7:09:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: redrunner
James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists idiots...
4 posted on 06/22/2008 7:10:28 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: redrunner

Salem 2008.


5 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:02 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: redrunner

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!


6 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:43 PM PDT by DeltaZulu
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To: REDWOOD99

Salem 2008!!! NO KIDDING!!! Insane!


7 posted on 06/22/2008 7:12:59 PM PDT by LearnN2speak
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To: redrunner
James E. Hansen (born March 29, 1941 in Denison, Iowa) heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies[1] in New York City, a part of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Earth Sciences Division.[2] He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, and also serves as Al Gore's science advisor.[3][4]

--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.

8 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: redrunner

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


9 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:12 PM PDT by Gone_Postal (We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat)
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To: redrunner

“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.


10 posted on 06/22/2008 7:13:19 PM PDT by vets son
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To: redrunner
high crimes against humanity and nature

I thought liberals were OK with crimes against nature...

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

11 posted on 06/22/2008 7:14:36 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I'm taking Grandma's advice and I'm holding my nose, John, stop sticking your finger down my throat.)
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To: redrunner

“actively spreading doubt”

so they want make charges of heresy. Its not science, its religion.


12 posted on 06/22/2008 7:14:56 PM PDT by motor_racer (Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.)
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To: FredZarguna

James Hansen is a “high crime against nature”.


13 posted on 06/22/2008 7:16:01 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: redrunner

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?


14 posted on 06/22/2008 7:17:01 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: redrunner

....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...


15 posted on 06/22/2008 7:17:54 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: redrunner

Commissar Hanson is the primary climate change propagandist out there. He’s a disgrace, and NASA should be embarrassed.


16 posted on 06/22/2008 7:18:25 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: redrunner

Mr Hansen, can you tell me where oil comes from?


17 posted on 06/22/2008 7:18:26 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right.)
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To: redrunner

Ayn Rand nailed it.


18 posted on 06/22/2008 7:19:01 PM PDT by saganite
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To: redrunner
Does James Hansen know that 85% of climate scientist do not believe the climate change is man made?
19 posted on 06/22/2008 7:20:15 PM PDT by kempo (h)
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To: redrunner
James Hansen and his ilk want to drive us back to the Stone Age. And they're not kidding, folks.

"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

20 posted on 06/22/2008 7:20:24 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ChinaThreat
James Hansen....... AN ETERNAL IDIOT
21 posted on 06/22/2008 7:20:47 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude () ......Pelosi + Reed = $ 4.00 per gallon......()
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To: redrunner

Put the Saudis on trial. This ain’t China for Pete’s sake.


22 posted on 06/22/2008 7:21:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: redrunner

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?


23 posted on 06/22/2008 7:22:22 PM PDT by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
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To: redrunner

The title of this lies: Hansen is no scientist, he’s a propagandist.


24 posted on 06/22/2008 7:22:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: redrunner

I can’t say what I want to do to this moron and others just like him.


25 posted on 06/22/2008 7:23:08 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: redrunner

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.


26 posted on 06/22/2008 7:24:17 PM PDT by webschooner (Bumper Sticker: "None of the Above, 2008")
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To: redrunner

I decided last week I am boycotting the green movement by doing exactly the opposite things they espouse.


27 posted on 06/22/2008 7:24:33 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (McCain or Obama-Either way we're screwed.)
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To: redrunner

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.


28 posted on 06/22/2008 7:24:45 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: redrunner

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.


29 posted on 06/22/2008 7:25:43 PM PDT by stratboy
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To: SpaceBar

Then we need to put ethanol backers on trial for the spike in food prices and people starving today.


30 posted on 06/22/2008 7:25:52 PM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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To: goldstategop
"James Hansen and his ilk want to drive us back to the Stone Age. And they're not kidding, folks."

And the only question is whether he'll be able to do it before the muslims kill us all.

31 posted on 06/22/2008 7:26:16 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: redrunner

Save the environment,
kill all environmentalists!


32 posted on 06/22/2008 7:31:08 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: redrunner
I'm busy reanimating Joe Stalin, James Hansen will need a lead prosecutor.
33 posted on 06/22/2008 7:32:14 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
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To: TheDon

Nice thought!


34 posted on 06/22/2008 7:33:34 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: editor-surveyor
"James Hansen and his ilk want to drive us back to the Stone Age. And they're not kidding, folks."

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....

35 posted on 06/22/2008 7:35:51 PM PDT by kromike
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To: FormerACLUmember
The cold war simply morphed into a political takeover, and will soon morph into a domestic guerrilla insurgency under the pretext of environmentalism, the divine embodiment of tyranny which the erstwhile secular communism lacked.
36 posted on 06/22/2008 7:37:28 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: redrunner

Hey, Hansen, tell it to the Chinese...then we’ll talk.


37 posted on 06/22/2008 7:39:07 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Leaving the top of my ballot blank.)
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To: Gone_Postal

Perhaps you should ask him how he plans to drive his car to work after he does that......


38 posted on 06/22/2008 7:39:11 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: redrunner

Hansen needs to be locked up and put out of our misery.


39 posted on 06/22/2008 7:39:36 PM PDT by Outland (Liberalism is a mental disorder. Socialism is a deep psychosis. Communism is brain cancer.)
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“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


40 posted on 06/22/2008 7:44:00 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: REDWOOD99

Sounds more like Stalinist Russia circa 1936 to me. What the left needs are show trials to direct blame away from themselves.


41 posted on 06/22/2008 7:44:50 PM PDT by synchron
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To: Gone_Postal

Funny to hear the moonbats say “treason” when they don’t even know what it means.


42 posted on 06/22/2008 7:45:18 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: redrunner
When I saw the headline I knew who this scientist would be.

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.

43 posted on 06/22/2008 7:46:29 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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There's a word for people like James Hansen, and it needs to be used every time one of these idiots speaks...

STALINIST!
44 posted on 06/22/2008 7:47:20 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
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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.

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!

45 posted on 06/22/2008 7:49:10 PM PDT by RJL
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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.


46 posted on 06/22/2008 7:53:59 PM PDT by milwguy (........)
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"Gee, I see parallels here...."

No, not parallel, convergeance. The lines converge at the drive-by media.

47 posted on 06/22/2008 7:56:19 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: redrunner
You would think Republicans would be able to make hay out of the fact that partisans on the Democratic side are openly, and without the slightest apology, demanding the retro-active criminalization of speech. What's worse, these oil company execs spoke these heresies while providing a vital service that Mr. Hansen enjoys, whether he admits or not.

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?

48 posted on 06/22/2008 7:56:26 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Minn

The oil company execs ought to show some balls and sue Hansen for slander.


49 posted on 06/22/2008 8:02:07 PM PDT by Reily
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To: M203M4

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.


50 posted on 06/22/2008 8:03:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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