Hansen Speaks
February 6, 2006 5:38 PM   Subscribe

That scientist NASA tried to silence? He finally did the radio interview last week.
posted by alms (16 comments total)
 
Meanwhile, Dan Froomkin does a rundown on the war on drugs terrorism science.
posted by alms at 5:40 PM on February 6, 2006


Experts! What do they know?
posted by TwelveTwo at 5:49 PM on February 6, 2006


Yeah, well, you can prove anything with facts can't you.
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 5:53 PM on February 6, 2006


I wish they would have a war on facts when it comes to my CREDIT RATING!!!!

Ok, going to check the actual post now.
posted by snsranch at 6:13 PM on February 6, 2006


Snsranch: you can actualy have your own little war on facts when it comes to your credit rating, check out this book
posted by delmoi at 6:20 PM on February 6, 2006


Hmm, looks like matt put in the amazon metafilter refer thing.
posted by delmoi at 6:20 PM on February 6, 2006


Or you could click here.
posted by delmoi at 6:29 PM on February 6, 2006


It's like a slow motion car crash-- that lasts hundereds of years.

What's scary is that, considering the effort they went through to hassle this guy and silence him, you'd think he was a dangerous maniac. However, when you listen to him, what's scary is how conservative and reasoned his beliefs are. He is _not_ some environmental wacko, or other stereotype.
posted by kuatto at 6:42 PM on February 6, 2006


See also.
posted by ericb at 6:46 PM on February 6, 2006


"Are you outraged at the idea of a public paid scientist from speaking to the public about the danger he sees?"

They sum up the problem pretty well (not with global warming, with this incident) right at the start.
posted by dsword at 7:03 PM on February 6, 2006


Unfortunately, I can't type:

"...public paid scientist being cut off from speaking...
posted by dsword at 7:05 PM on February 6, 2006


Well, maybe we can eat money then.
posted by Smedleyman at 7:49 PM on February 6, 2006


I heard this interview, and it was good. Hansen was nervous in general when talking about the consequences to his career of his doing the interview. And he was very careful when wording certain things, especially when talking about policy.
He went out of his way (obviously at the advice of counsel) to avoid talking about the administration's policies and how he felt about them, and focused instead on describing the effects of different approaches to policy.
On one hand (he said), if the US makes the effort necessary to level emissions off, the ice caps may remain in okay shape. On the other hand, if emissions continue to rise, there will come a point within the next 10 or 20 years where the ice caps will begin to melt at such a rate that no amount of emissions control will make a difference.
posted by dammitjim at 10:02 PM on February 6, 2006


omg delmoi is leet matt-depriving hax0r
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 3:18 AM on February 7, 2006


If delmoi goes to the trouble of recommending the book, I'd prefer to see delmoi get the credit for it, not Matt. Matt's already making enough on ads to retire.
posted by orthogonality at 4:23 AM on February 7, 2006


Take it to meta. You guys know better.
posted by Roger Dodger at 6:27 AM on February 7, 2006


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