NASA's Prophet Will Give You Nightmares

Slate ^ | http://www.slate.com/id/2242201/pagenum/all/#p2 | Johann Hari

[Lorianne]

Ignore James Hansen's climate predictions at your peril.___ I started reading James Hansen's new book, Storms of My Grandchildren, at the edge of a vanishing Arctic. I sat on a bare brown Greenland hillside listening to the ferocious crack and crash of the dying glaciers in the distance. As I watched the corpse of the ice sheet float by, broken into a thousand icebergs, it seemed the right place to begin the leading NASA scientist's explanation for what I was seeing. Since the year I was born, 1979, 40 percent of the Arctic sea ice has vanished. If we don't change our behavior fast, Hansen says I will live to see the day when it is all gone, and the North Pole is a point in the open ocean, reachable by boat. He stresses these are only the starting symptoms of a planetary fever that will remake the map of the world—and the capacity of human beings to survive on it. I finished reading the book at the Copenhagen climate summit, where the world's leaders gathered to offer a giant shrug.

Professor Hansen has been driven into a strange situation, and produced a strange book. For one-third of a century now, this cantankerous scientist has been more accurate in his predictions about global warming than anyone else alive. He saw these disastrous changes coming long before others did, and the U.S. government has tried to censor or sack him for his prescience. Now he has written a whistle-blower's account while still at the top: a story of how our political system is so wilfully, deliberately blind to environmental realities that we have no choice now but for American citizens to take direct physical action against the polluters.

[GraceG]

>> It appears we have now entered a new cool period, but even photographic evidence and computer metrics are ironically denied by those who accuse others of being “Deniers”. Finally, James Hansen is considered to be an outlier (to be kind) even by many of his fellow Global Warmists, and an outright liar by many others. <<

Hide the Decline Indeed

[Judith Anne]

What about the ridge of active volcanoes under the Artic?

Please!