Posted: 1/17/2013 3:54:08 PM EDT
|
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama
New York The Observer, Saturday 17 January 2009 Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.
Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. "We cannot afford to put off change any longer," said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead." Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists. Only the US now had the political muscle to lead the world and halt the rise, Hansen said. Having refused to recognise that global warming posed any risk at all over the past eight years, the US now had to take a lead as the world's greatest carbon emitter and the planet's largest economy. Cap-and-trade schemes, in which emission permits are bought and sold, have failed, he said, and must now be replaced by a carbon tax that will imposed on all producers of fossil fuels. At the same time, there must be a moratorium on new power plants that burn coal - the world's worst carbon emitter. Hansen - head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and winner of the WWF's top conservation award - first warned Earth was in danger from climate change in 1988 and has been the victim of several unsuccessful attempts by the White House administration of George Bush to silence his views. Hansen's institute monitors temperature fluctuations at thousands of sites round the world, data that has led him to conclude that most estimates of sea level rises triggered by rising atmospheric temperatures are too low and too conservative. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a rise of between 20cm and 60cm can be expected by the end of the century. However, Hansen said feedbacks in the climate system are already accelerating ice melt and are threatening to lead to the collapse of ice sheets. Sea-level rises will therefore be far greater - a claim backed last week by a group of British, Danish and Finnish scientists who said studies of past variations in climate indicate that a far more likely figure for sea-level rise will be about 1.4 metres, enough to cause devastating flooding of many of the world's major cities and of low-lying areas of Holland, Bangladesh and other nations. As a result of his fears about sea-level rise, Hansen said he had pressed both Britain's Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences to carry out an urgent investigation of the state of the planet's ice-caps. However, nothing had come of his proposals. The first task of Obama's new climate office should therefore be to order such a probe "as a matter of urgency", Hansen added. Game over. 
|
|
Quoted:
http://www.guardent/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama New York The Observer, Saturday 17 January 2009 Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.
Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. "We cannot afford to put off change any longer," said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead." Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists. Only the US now had the political muscle to lead the world and halt the rise, Hansen said. Having refused to recognise that global warming posed any risk at all over the past eight years, the US now had to take a lead as the world's greatest carbon emitter and the planet's largest economy. Cap-and-trade schemes, in which emission permits are bought and sold, have failed, he said, and must now be replaced by a carbon tax that will imposed on all producers of fossil fuels. At the same time, there must be a moratorium on new power plants that burn coal - the world's worst carbon emitter. Hansen - head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and winner of the WWF's top conservation award - first warned Earth was in danger from climate change in 1988 and has been the victim of several unsuccessful attempts by the White House administration of George Bush to silence his views. Hansen's institute monitors temperature fluctuations at thousands of sites round the world, data that has led him to conclude that most estimates of sea level rises triggered by rising atmospheric temperatures are too low and too conservative. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a rise of between 20cm and 60cm can be expected by the end of the century. However, Hansen said feedbacks in the climate system are already accelerating ice melt and are threatening to lead to the collapse of ice sheets. Sea-level rises will therefore be far greater - a claim backed last week by a group of British, Danish and Finnish scientists who said studies of past variations in climate indicate that a far more likely figure for sea-level rise will be about 1.4 metres, enough to cause devastating flooding of many of the world's major cities and of low-lying areas of Holland, Bangladesh and other nations. As a result of his fears about sea-level rise, Hansen said he had pressed both Britain's Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences to carry out an urgent investigation of the state of the planet's ice-caps. However, nothing had come of his proposals. The first task of Obama's new climate office should therefore be to order such a probe "as a matter of urgency", Hansen added. Game over. PLEASE - Stop quoting that left wing rag the Guardian. There has never been such a bunch of hand-wringing, bed-wetting socialist tossers. The article reads like some 14 year old scientologist wrote it in an effort to give it credibility and it is aimed an other hand-wringing bed wetters who will then go on facefuck to spread the bullshit story about. The whole article is written in the full knowledge that the world will not end, that Obama will implement some form of carbon tax, and thus the liberal shits can claim that Chocolate Jesus saved the world. The key to Carbon Emissions is China and the Asian Sub-Conbtinent. |
as the Progressive scum and their FSA minions would comment 
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
People still believe this stuff? SHUT UP YOU FOXWATCHER! 
I own a first edition of Gore's book, which pretty much said we were done for around the year 2000, if I remember correctly. Since we're still here, I can't help but wonder if he revised the date for subsequent printings 
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
|
Quoted:
Meanwhile in the Southeast United States... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg/800px-BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg But arn't we supposed to die in freezing cold as a result of global warming? See, it is happening.
|
|
Quoted:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama New York The Observer, Saturday 17 January 2009 Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.
Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. "We cannot afford to put off change any longer," said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead." Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists. Only the US now had the political muscle to lead the world and halt the rise, Hansen said. Having refused to recognise that global warming posed any risk at all over the past eight years, the US now had to take a lead as the world's greatest carbon emitter and the planet's largest economy. Cap-and-trade schemes, in which emission permits are bought and sold, have failed, he said, and must now be replaced by a carbon tax that will imposed on all producers of fossil fuels. At the same time, there must be a moratorium on new power plants that burn coal - the world's worst carbon emitter. Hansen - head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and winner of the WWF's top conservation award - first warned Earth was in danger from climate change in 1988 and has been the victim of several unsuccessful attempts by the White House administration of George Bush to silence his views. Hansen's institute monitors temperature fluctuations at thousands of sites round the world, data that has led him to conclude that most estimates of sea level rises triggered by rising atmospheric temperatures are too low and too conservative. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a rise of between 20cm and 60cm can be expected by the end of the century. However, Hansen said feedbacks in the climate system are already accelerating ice melt and are threatening to lead to the collapse of ice sheets. Sea-level rises will therefore be far greater - a claim backed last week by a group of British, Danish and Finnish scientists who said studies of past variations in climate indicate that a far more likely figure for sea-level rise will be about 1.4 metres, enough to cause devastating flooding of many of the world's major cities and of low-lying areas of Holland, Bangladesh and other nations. As a result of his fears about sea-level rise, Hansen said he had pressed both Britain's Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences to carry out an urgent investigation of the state of the planet's ice-caps. However, nothing had come of his proposals. The first task of Obama's new climate office should therefore be to order such a probe "as a matter of urgency", Hansen added. Game over. they said entitlement expenses were going to INCREASE 80% in the next 10 years. considering entitlements already take 80% of the budget, id say were fucked no matter what we do. thats not counting being 16 trillion in the negative either.
|
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Meanwhile in the Southeast United States... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg/800px-BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg But arn't we supposed to die in freezing cold as a result of global warming? See, it is happening. I checked the box for "slowly roasted alive in a now-barren landscape denuded by lack of rainfall and increased ultraviolet radiation." It just sounds like more fun. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Fuck this place. Flood it again. Those of us worth a damn can make an ark and repopulate the earth. The rest of the useless eaters and FSA can perish. I would have no problem with doing my fair share in helping repopulate the world 
There isnt an ark big enough to carry all the ammo, but im in on the repopulation part! |
|
Quoted:
PLEASE - Stop quoting that left wing rag the Guardian. But the comments are great. Like this one: RoxieF
18 January 2009 10:20 PMLink to this comment 16Global Warming was never a problem before George Bush. Him and the American Republicans are totally responsible for it. They have refused to even acknowledge it as a problem. President Obama will resolve it not just for the United States but for the whole world. The majority of the world would love to have Obama as the leader of the entire world. Within the next 12 months, Obama will manage create peace in the world and abolish hunger. America will lead the new World Order. No more wars, hunger or wants anywhere. Sarcasm? Serious? I can't tell. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
PLEASE - Stop quoting that left wing rag the Guardian. But the comments are great. Like this one: RoxieF
18 January 2009 10:20 PMLink to this comment 16Global Warming was never a problem before George Bush. Him and the American Republicans are totally responsible for it. They have refused to even acknowledge it as a problem. President Obama will resolve it not just for the United States but for the whole world. The majority of the world would love to have Obama as the leader of the entire world. Within the next 12 months, Obama will manage create peace in the world and abolish hunger. America will lead the new World Order. No more wars, hunger or wants anywhere. Sarcasm? Serious? I can't tell. Yeah...you'd think nobody could be that stupid. I know Guardian readers.....they are known as Guardianistas. In any other newspaper I'd say sarcasm 100%. In the Guardian....not so sure. 
|
|
Quoted:
they said entitlement expenses were going to INCREASE 80% in the next 10 years. considering entitlements already take 80% of the budget, id say were fucked no matter what we do. thats not counting being 16 trillion in the negative either. No, mandatory spending is like 64%. That includes interest on the debt, entitlements are not quite 60%. However, after paying off mandatory spending, they only had $217B left over for the rest of the government. It will be game over long before entitlements reach 80%. |
|
Quoted:
[Yeah...you'd think nobody could be that stupid. I know Guardian readers.....they are known as Guardianistas. In any other newspaper I'd say sarcasm 100%. In the Guardian....not so sure. I'm thinking they are serious. But I'm not sure. Seriously. I wonder how serious Dr. Hansen was. Did he / does he believe what he's saying? It's good to remember what these people said back then. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Meanwhile in the Southeast United States... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg/800px-BrockenSnowedTrees.jpg But arn't we supposed to die in freezing cold as a result of global warming? See, it is happening. I checked the box for "slowly roasted alive in a now-barren landscape denuded by lack of rainfall and increased ultraviolet radiation." It just sounds like more fun. You're moving to Las Vegas? 
|