Warmist vs warmist on Keystone XL: Waxman says "This is only a small issue" while James Hansen said it's "game over" on the climate front if the Keystone XL pipeline is built

Waxman: Keystone XL 'small' piece of climate puzzle - The Hill's E2-Wire

“This is only a small issue compared to the overall objective that the president and we want to achieve,” Waxman, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said during a news conference Thursday.

Flashback: NASA's Hansen Explains Decision to Join Keystone Pipeline Protests | Reuters

SolveClimate News: Can you explain why you have said it's "game over" on the climate front if the Keystone XL pipeline is built?

James Hansen: President George W. Bush said that the U.S. was addicted to oil. So what will the U.S. response to this situation be? Will it entail phasing out fossil fuels and moving to clean energy or borrowing the dirtiest needle from a fellow addict? That is the question facing President Obama.

If he chooses the dirty needle it is game over because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well-oiled coal-fired politicians with no real intention of solving the addiction. Canada is going to sell its dope, if it can find a buyer. So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long-wall mining. Obama will have decided he is a hopeless addict.

SolveClimate News: You have referred to Keystone XL as the "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet."...