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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If we made it a policy to do the opposite of what they try, we’d win at every turn.
Hansen makes no sense.
Hilarious!
Did he fly to the conference on a magical windmill?
Why should anyone pay attention to this old commie?
We are doomed ... we are not heeding the great environmental faux Prophet Hansen! I guess that makes strike three as we have ignored the two previous Prophets Mann and Jones .... we’re surely doomed!
James. Roll some more duddies and go stand with the freaks protesting the pipeline. That’s about all you got left.
That should be "This Soros-funded loon..."
Grants, of which, iirc, he neglected to file required reports to the appropriate agencies.
Ex-NASA scientist makes no sense
Spot on and liberals love undefined words. It allows them the flexibility to use it as a weapon of reason.
How did I know it was that jackass hanson before i clicked on the title?
And as for the little people around the globe who could use a job, “Up yours, I got mine, now we got to save the planet.”
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