Showing posts with label IV Hansen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV Hansen. Show all posts
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Friday, September 28, 2012
OUR KID'S BOTTOM LINE: MAX OF 35 PPM MORE, 158 GT MORE CO2 BY 2050
Loving's comment: Anyone that REALLY cares about the future needs to be technology neutral, and you are not, so far. The one bottom line, according to the one scientific and moral guru, Dr. Hansen, is no more than 35 ppm more (158 gt more) by 2050 - 425 ppm max. Period. Right now with 9 gigatons of carbon going in the atmosphere yearly, 2 ppm / year (9 gt per year), increasing 3% per year, we'll be more than twice that: 2050-2012= 38years * 2ppm = 76 ppm additional by 2050, more than double what preserves any future for the next 200 billion children. We'll be over the maximum by 2029 at our current rate. You really put technology preference over that Bottom Line? "NO," you say! But you do. You are overlooking lobbying, implementation. I too greatly prefer wind and solar. Hugely. But there may not be enough lobbying or citizen mobilization to get that done, in time, all, for wind and sun. You really are going to sacrifice the next 200 billion kids on the altar of technological purity? Really? You need to fight for, not a particular technology, but a max of 35 ppm, 158 GT max of Carbon burned, by 2050, LESS THAN HALF OUR CURRENT RATE. Your, and my only concern must be to ACHIEVE that, by whatever technological and political means are best available. Our next 200 billion kids need us to focus on 'need to have', not 'want to have.'
Nuclear power is the Betamax of the energy world
The Guardian (blog)-7 hours ago
So I think it is worth spending a little time talking about why nuclear power is the ... Even a group called Supporters of Nuclear Energy is now questioning the cost ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
GWDF2 D13b Book 3: The Actionable Essentials of NASA's Dr. Hansen
Full title: "The Actionable Essentials Series (1): NASAs Dr.
Hansen - for fathers, mothers, older siblings, children, normal citizens
- victims all. From “Storms of my Grandchildren.”" DRAFT
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Jim Hansen - "The experts, including those at many nonprofit organizations, have been in Washington too long."
"The experts, including those at many nonprofit organizations, have been in Washington too long. They are careful to only nudge industry, asking only for what is ―politically realistic rather than what is in the best interests of the public. They will not state clearly what is needed. That is why young people will need to stand up for their rights."
Jim Hansen, "Storms of my Grandchildren."
Jim Hansen, "Storms of my Grandchildren."
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
***** Jim Hansen: 'Cut coal emissions 50% by 2020, 100% by 2030, means peak ppm 400-425 by 2050.' .'
Storms page 114 ***** Jim Hansen: 'Cut coal emissions 50% by 2020, 100% by 2030, means peak ppm 400-425 by 2050.' .'
Jim Hansen: "2-degree Celsius global warming, or even a 1.7-degree warming, is a disaster scenario"
Page 94 Storms of my Grandchildren, 2009
Sunday, August 5, 2012
July Heat Records Crush Cold Records By 17 To 1, 'Historic Heat Wave And ... ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress -
By Joe Romm
on Aug 5, 2012 at 12:29 pm. July saw 3135 new daily high temperature
records in the U.S. - over 100 per day. That overwhelmed new cold
records by a factor of nearly 17 to 1, as this chart from Capital
Climate shows.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Big Oil is Earth's Public Enemy No. 1 MarketWatch
MarketWatch -
Recently James Hansen, head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies wrote in the New York Times: “Game Over for the Climate: Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.” Today oil companies and environmentalists are on a collision course.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
NASA's James Hansen Reviews Draft American Meteorological Society Climate ... ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress -
Climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has read the statement and offers his opinion below.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
***** BBC News - NASA Hansen's climate warning
BBC News - NASA Hansen's climate warning
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| www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17675576NEW3 days ago - 8 min World-renowned American climate scientist James Hansen of NASA has been in Scotland to pick up science ... | |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
***** REDUCE 6%/YR. NOW. NASA's Hansen et al, CASE FOR Protecting Young People and Nature
Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature
(Submitted on 6 Oct 2011 (v1), last revised 23 Mar 2012 (this version, v3))
Global warming due to human-made gases, mainly CO2, is already 0.8{\deg}C and deleterious climate impacts are growing worldwide. More warming is 'in the pipeline' because Earth is out of energy balance, with absorbed solar energy exceeding planetary heat radiation. Maintaining a climate that resembles the Holocene, the world of stable shorelines in which civilization developed, requires rapidly reducing fossil fuel CO2 emissions. Such a scenario is economically sensible and has multiple benefits for humanity and other species. Yet fossil fuel extraction is expanding, including highly carbon-intensive sources that can push the climate system beyond tipping points such that amplifying feedbacks drive further climate change that is practically out of humanity's control. This situation raises profound moral issues as young people, future generations, and nature, with no possibility of protecting their future well-being, will bear the principal consequences of actions and inactions of today's adults.
Submission history
From: Robert Schmunk [view email][v1] Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:37:19 GMT (469kb)
[v2] Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:43:56 GMT (422kb)
[v3] Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:23:44 GMT (600kb)
Monday, April 2, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
James Hansen to be awarded Edinburgh Medal at International Science ... STV Local
STV Local -
American climate scientist Dr James Hansen will be awarded the 24th Edinburgh Medal as the capital's international science festival kicks off on Friday March 30.
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