Wednesday, February 29, 2012

TED2012: James Hansen: Climate change is "like a giant asteroid that's on course to hit earth".

He's reaching towards his conclusion now. And it as a certain sci-fi quality.

Climate change is "like a giant asteroid that's on course to hit earth".

And the longer we wait the more difficult and expensive it becomes.

The tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it.

He's proposing an escalating fee on carbon collected from fossil fuel companies. Which would stimulate the economy and lead to a clean energy future.

"But instead our governments are foricng the public to subsidise fossil fuels by every means possible. This path if continued guarantees that we will pass tipping points leading to events that are out of control."

It's immoral, he says. And has to be stopped.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why not tax all the money paid to climate alarmists at 75% as a start...

lemon

riggers said...

The really worrying thing about all this alarmist scaremongering is that: whilst it may well be providing a nice bandwagon for the otherwise useless and superfluous politicians etc., people who are in positions such as teachers are actually BRAINWASHING our children that the 'global warming' theories are actually FACT.

Visit 'Answers.com' and see what I mean. (username ‘riggers_386’.)I was recently blocked from the site, after pointing out that the theory of global warming is THEORY - not FACT, and that it shouldn't be presented as such, to impressionable minds, by those in a position to do so, and who should damned well know better. One particularly obnoxious 'supervisor' (a member of 'Wiki Greens' and whose scientific qualification is ‘music teacher,’ continually edited out my answers. Eventually when I kept him too busy, he had me blocked. My answers and edits were all moderate, no foul language was used, nor did I at any time include any disputed facts. I was merely pointing out that scientific FACT is different from theory – and that repeating a theory loud and often, whilst denouncing anyone who questions it, can never make it fact.

Answers.com is simply a breeding ground for the global warming zealots: no dissent allowed. Read their garbage, and have a good laugh.

‘GREEN’ Cambridge Dictionary: ‘not experienced or trained’

‘WIKI GREENS’ definition: (self explanatory.)