Climate Solution: Pay True Cost of Fossil Fuels, NASA Scientist Says - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK — Prominent climate scientist James Hansen has been warning that humans have brought the planet to a tipping point, after which changes, such as melting ice, can pick up momentum with potentially devastating effects.
At a discussion today (Oct. 11), Hansen suggested society has reached its own tipping point.
"We are at a fork in the road. We can either continue with business as usual and addiction to fossil fuels, or we can put an honest price on carbon that makes fossil fuels pay their cost to society," Hansen told an audience at the State of the Planet Conference held here at Columbia University.
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Hansen, too, expressed frustration. Obama should have had a Franklin Roosevelt-style fireside chat with the nation shortly after his election, when his popularity was high, and explained the need to put a price on carbon, the primary ingredient in greenhouse gases, Hansen said.
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When asked the implications of a victory for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Hansen noted that he found the sway held by climate-change deniers over Republican candidates discouraging. "Nevertheless, the realities can be made clear to educated, intelligent people," he said.
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I believe you would find the vast majority of us "AGW skeptics" to be of more than average intelligence and education. I myself am both an aerospace engineer, and a doctor.
As such I pride myself in my ability to judge on the basis of data rather than rhetoric or hyperbole. If we're choosing sides, I'll take Dr Judith Curry and Burt Rutan on my side.
Hansen and Mann would be the last guys standing...unpicked and waiting desperately for their names to be called....
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