NASA’s Climate "Guru" vs a non-alarmist power utility CEO

NASA’s top climatologist and the director of the Goddard Institute, Dr. James Hansen, weighed in this August on state-owned power utility Santee-Cooper’s efforts to construct a new coal-fired power plant near Florence, penning a letter to CEO Lonnie Carter that called the plant “a terrible, foreseeable, waste of money.”

Carter replied in September, reiterating his position that some scientists still don’t acknowledge a human affect on climate change, and he welcomed the chance to discuss the issue with Hansen. Last week, Hansen traveled to South Carolina to meet with Carter and the utility’s board, also participating in press conferences and a public event at the College of Charleston.

“This is an issue of intergenerational equity and justice,” Hansen says. “We are leaving a certain problem for our children and grandchildren which will be enormous and not of their doing. We risk passing on to them a planet that is unrecognizable from the one we enjoy now.”

How green was my off-set? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

...A question: how healthy are the trees in all the other “carbon sinks” that have been planted by companies which offer those fashionably green"off-set" schemes? Are they checked? Indeed, are they actually planted?

Just who is taking responsibility for checking the green hype?

Gore: It's all about oil

Gore gets frustrated, he told the sold-out Seattle Sheraton lunch, at those who are "willfully blind to the largest, costliest, most serious, dirtiest crisis in the world today." The audience rose to its feet in a prolonged standing ovation.
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Gore took up the theme with gaseous politician hyperbole.

The transformation to new energy sources will be "bigger than the industrial revolution," predicted the former vice president.
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A frequent Washington visitor, he has climbed Mount Rainier, visited sites like a sinkhole in Shoreline, done Christmas shopping at REI, vacationed in the San Juan Islands, and ridden a jet boat while designating the Hanford Reach National Monument.
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At another point, speaking of Gore, Durkan declared: "He's not coming out until you pick up those (contribution) envelopes."

A green energy future may prove glorious, but our governor's race is not a pretty thing.