Posted on 05/16/2013 1:35:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A noted climatologist and recently-retired NASA research chief has entered the EU’s energy policy debate, with a warning that any re-industrialization strategy that increases fossil fuels use can only be short-term, irrational and economically wasteful.
In a wide-ranging interview with EurActiv, James Hansen branded the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) “ineffectual” and flawed, and accused energy firms of preferring government bribes over investments in clean technology. Hansen, whose Congressional testimony on climate change in 1988 first popularized the issue in the United States, also said that approving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to bring tar sands fuel from Canada to Texas would “gravely tarnish” President Barack Obama’s legacy. …
“We do not make fossil fuels companies pay for their effects on human health, or on the climate, and we even subsidize them,” he said, “so it is a very short term argument to say that you should re-industrialize in a way that uses more fossil fuels. It doesn’t even make economic sense from a long-term perspective,” he argued. “By any rational assessment, those fuels need to be left in the ground.” …
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Oh, the “hate science” talking point. It’s they that hate science and prefer dogma; when their dogma doesn’t stand up to the scientific method, they start in with their “destroy the infidel” rhetoric.
This guy is a total left wing hack.
Think one of Jupiter or Saturn’s moons has a methane (natural gas) atmosphere. Fossils weren’t the source of that. Hydrocarbons have been found in plumes of gas from Mars. Seems that these chemicals we call fossil fuels are noticeably abundant in the universe.
DEEP HOT BIO-SPHERE ping!!!!!!!
Paying any attention to this pseudo-scientist makes no sense.
“Ex-NASA scientist says re-industrializing with fossil fuels makes no sense”
NASA ex-scientist says re-industrializing with fossil fuels makes no sense
There, fixed it.
Using his rationale perhaps he could start by turning off his air conditioner and discontinuing driving and flying. He is personally consuming resources and adding no value to society. Perhaps he should stop eating as well.
“with a warning that any re-industrialization strategy that increases fossil fuels use can only be short-term, irrational and economically wasteful”
So, now, we have a retired NASA scientist who is an expert at industrialization....
Me thinks he has inhaled too much rocket fuel or stayed at a Holiday Inn last night....
I’m really looking forward to the day I get to read James Hansen’s obituary. It’ll be champagne popping time, for sure!
Wonderful when a teen comes together!!!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/15/teenager-designs-safer-nuclear-power-plants/
Paying the time of day to EX-NASA scientists makes no sense.
So he graduated from the super advanced shop class at MIT or wherever. Doesn’t mean he knows a damn thing about the real world.
We should re-industrialize using muscle power from draft animals and humans yoked to machines. After all, it worked so well for thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution.
Makes plenty of sense to the socialists in Europe, though.
It's nonsense, but its use is very telling. The target of the alarmists has always been industrialization and industrialized society itself. These people have the belief that the human race is destroying the planet by the very process of industrialization. They invented AGW theory as their silver bullet that explains how we have been destroying the planet and how we can "save" it.
To the extent the alarmists' plans have been implemented, Hanson and his ilk view it as "de-industrializing," that is first steps in reversing the industrial revolution. That is their real aim.
That’s assuming the European Union makes sense, first off. Hansen’s acting as the token American spouting the EU talking points to make all the other “ugly” Americans look bad.
I think we could get ships to erect tall poles on them and hang large pieces of cloth from them to catch the wind. Why haven’t we thought of that yet?
I want liberals out of my gas tank. How much fuel I use is a privatre matter between me and Exxon-Mobil.
The word "re-industrialize" can't really be used to describe the process of trying to run the modern world without chemical power. I think the word this ex-NASA witch doctor is looking for is "de-industrialize".
They're the deep thinkers. The rest is merely engineering.
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