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Fascist NASA Goddard Head Demands Oil Company Show Trials, Political Control
 James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
| Jim still uses gasoline and heats his home, I wager ... |
Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech in his own mind to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the 'perfect storm' of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.
Speaking before Congress again, ...
'Again?'
'Again, Senator.'
'Couldn't we do something less painful? Maybe subpoena the Vice-President?'
'He'll never appear.'
'Great, just great. What earmark do I have to vote for to make this peasant go away?' |
he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. In an interview with the Guardian he said: 'When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime.'
He is also considering personally targeting members of Congress who have a poor track record on climate change in the coming November elections. He will campaign to have several of them unseated.
| Sounds like it's going to be a real stemwinder ... |
Hansen's speech to Congress on June 23 1988 is seen as a seminal moment in bringing the threat of global warming to the public's attention. At a time when most scientists were still hesitant to speak out, he said the evidence of the greenhouse gas effect was 99% certain in his own mind, adding 'it is time to stop waffling'.
His sharpest words are reserved for the special interests he blames for public confusion about the nature of the global warming threat. 'The problem is not political will, it's the alligator shoes - the lobbyists. It's the fact that money talks in Washington, and that democracy is not working the way it's intended to work.'
| 'You should be listening to me! ME! ME-E-E-E-E-E-E!!!!!' |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-23 |
