Richard Gray
London Telegraph
April 8, 2012
Dr James Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who first made warnings about climate change in the 1980s, said that public scepticism about the threat of man-made climate change has increased despite the growing scientific consensus.
Speaking ahead of a public lecture in Edinburgh this week, he admitted that without public support it will be impossible to make the changes he and his colleagues believe need to occur to protect future generations from the effects of climate change.
He blamed sceptics who are opposed to major social and economic changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for employing “tremendous resources” to undermine the scientific evidence.
Dr Hansen, who will receive the Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, pointed to a number of controversies involving climate scientists, such as the leaked University of East Anglia emails, as being partly responsible for the shift in public opinion.
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the enormous resources of the human brain and human soul are what these tyrants seek to rob from us.
the INCONVENIENT TRUTH is that Methane outgassing, not gradual CO2 buildup, such as has been intentionally engaged in by companies like BP, contributes to immediate and catastrophic climate change, to include anoxic events and mass extinctions.
…didn’t one of your own forum threads recently state that the north atlantic current is all but gone?
we are already seeing these things come to pass in our day and age!
Carbon sequestration on the ocean floor is another hazardous undertaking that will soon cause explosions and earthquakes as new faults form, magma rises, and formerly cool areas of the ocean begin to heat, exciting the sequestrated gas and causing explosions of bubbles to shoot to the surface with all of the force of a nuclear blast…
perhaps the ancient legend of the sea serpent has more haunting origins than giant reptiles… perhaps the sea serpent is a metaphor for what can happen to the ocean and its travelers when a seafloor transform fault actually explodes, not just shakes or slips but explodes…
heh
but don’t let me ignite the next UN sanctioned hysteria
flaming_red_pill Reply:
April 8th, 2012 at 9:19 am
useful google terms:
methane clathrate
clathrate gun hypothesis
methane gas
methane outgassing
mud volcano
if climate change is real what created the last ice-age ?
considering of cause our history isn’t just total bs like global warming.
it’s a scam to get money from people, like all the other taxes, licences ect …
flaming_red_pill Reply:
April 8th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
actually your question is great:
i googled methana ice age a while back, couple of months,
and the results were… surprising.
it seems as if when there is a certain % methane in air and water on earth,
we quickly go into a desert phase which lasts briefly but is very bad,
followed by a flooding or ice age, which is also very bad LOL.
maybe that is what gives mother earth time to recover from our civilizations,
to replenish the species again,
so on and so forth/
CO2 isn’t the reason the cycles are there.
Methane on the other hand is a FAST ACTOR when you are speaking of cataclysmic and sudden climate SHIFT.
methane is like a genetic frameshift mutation;
unlike a saturation, it simply just throws everything off