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The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit”<\/a><\/h3>\n
Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the “historic” signing of a climate ‘deal’ with no enforcement mechanism,\u00a0few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is<\/strong>\u00a0than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who\u00a0as The Guardian notes<\/a>, is\u00a0considered the father of global awareness of climate change<\/strong>…<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a fraud really, a fake,\u201d he says, rubbing his head. \u201cIt\u2019s just bullshit for them to say: \u2018We\u2019ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.\u2019 It\u2019s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

The talks, intended to reach a new global deal on cutting carbon emissions beyond 2020, have spent much time and energy on two major issues: whether the world should aim to contain the temperature rise to 1.5C or 2C above preindustrial levels, and how much funding should be doled out by wealthy countries to developing nations that risk being swamped by rising seas and bashed by escalating extreme weather events.<\/p>\n

But, according to Hansen, the international jamboree is pointless unless greenhouse gas emissions aren\u2019t taxed across the board.\u00a0<\/strong>He argues that only this will force down emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst ravages of climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hansen has been a nagging yet respected voice on climate change since he shot to prominence in the summer of 1988.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Nasa scientists, who had been analyzing changes in the Earth\u2019s climate since the\u00a01970s, told a congressional committee that something called the \u201cgreenhouse effect\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>where heat-trapped gases are released into the atmosphere was causing global warming with a 99% certainty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit” Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the “historic” signing of a climate ‘deal’ with no enforcement mechanism,\u00a0few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is\u00a0than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who\u00a0as The Guardian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,10451,369,6955,1921,2847,9056,6028,9435],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-cop21","tag-global-warming","tag-james-hansen","tag-new-york-times","tag-obama-administration","tag-paris-climate-talks","tag-president-obama","tag-zero-hedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15230,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions\/15230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}