While Donald Trump and many conservatives like to argue that climate change is a hoax, James Hansen, the 77-year-old former NASA climate scientist, said in an interview at his home in New York that the relevant hoax today is perpetrated by those leaders claiming to be addressing the problem.
Hansen’s long list of culprits for this inertia are both familiar – the nefarious lobbying of the fossil fuel industry – and surprising.
Jerry Brown, the progressive governor of California, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, are “both pretending to be solving the problem” while being unambitious and shunning low-carbon nuclear power, Hansen argues.
There is particular scorn for Barack Obama. Hansen says in a scathing upcoming book that the former president “failed miserably” on climate change and oversaw policies that were “late, ineffectual and partisan”. —The Guardian, 19 June 2018
A plan for the UK to ban petrol, diesel, and most hybrid cars by 2040 is set to be watered down, with ministers now referring to it as a “mission”. —Financial Times, 18 June 2018
Beer and fizzy drinks are in danger of falling flat after fears of a shortage of carbon dioxide production in Europe surfaced over the weekend. —Financial Times, 20 June 2018
Accelerating the expansion of renewable energy sources could threaten their competitiveness, a new report has claimed. Germany’s minister for the economy and energy Peter Altmaier believes renewables will become “fully competitive” with fossil fuels and even subsidy-free by 2023. But Aurora Energy Research argues that this is questionable under the current market design. —Wind Power Monthly, 14 June 2018
Think about it. A third of the land where wind farms can be expected to do the most damage to birds has been opened up for wind farm development. Indeed the (greenest) government (ever) will even subsidize the destruction. And the reaction of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds? Not a cheep. Don’t the birds actually matter anymore? –Andrew Montford, The Spectator 17 June 2018
Last week, on the 14th of June, I spoke in the Lex Debate at the Financial Times Energy Transitions Summit, opposing the motion that “Fossil Fuels are Doomed”, but did not succeed. I attended the Summit from 08.45 to 15.30 and was the only platform speaker to use the terms “physics”, “entropy”, or “thermodynamics”, or to raise these matters as relevant to the feasibility and pace of energy transitions. Economics, of all subjects, appears to have become a very spiritual matter. –John Constable, GWPF Energy, 20 June 2018
We are told that bees especially are in peril and that farmers are, at least in part, the cause of that peril. Is this true? Let us start with honey bees. Globally, there have never been more hives of honey bees; there are about 90 million in the world compared with about 60 million 50 years ago. In Europe and the UK, too, we are near to a record number of hives. –Matt Ridley, House of Lords, 19 June 2018
The world is failing ‘Miserably’ to address the invasion of space aliens, purple people eaters, and anthropological climate change because none of these exist.
Now lets see now who was around when the air conditioning was shut off in Washington to facilitate hyping the scary global warming venture .
How are all those prophesies of doom doing Hansen ?
Ever notice the increasing frequencies of book releases from leakers (Commey ) and other self dealing pricks . The climate swindle books have run out of runway and politicians that want to continue to use the earth has a fever nonsense to further their tax agenda are getting blown out . Ontario , Germany and the USA to name a few .
Hansen belongs in a padded cell and wearing a streight jacket he is more nutty then 250 acres of walnut trees at harvest time