Thursday, October 23, 2008

Thanks for nothing, Jim

At the link below, a CO2-phobic mom suggests that her belief in Jim Hansen's 350 ppm lunacy may have resulted in her four young sons huddling together for warmth in a 52 degree house...

You Can Go Home Again: What I’d Like To Have Been Able to Say to New York Times Readers
Debating which extreme is pathological doesn’t help us find a functional way of life. And that is what is desperately needed. And quickly. NASA’s chief climate scientist James Hansen has argued that we need to reach 350ppm very rapidly - within a decade. We’re already past at nearly 390ppm - the arctic ice is already in the danger zone, Greenland is showing increasing melting signs and most disturbing, methane is being released from upper levels of arctic permafrost. Meanwhile, there are signs that we may have passed the world peak in crude oil production, and the volatile price of energy has helped drive us into a recession.
Background here.

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