Rewriting The Science
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
or
http://tinyurl.com/qoo59
"What James Hansen believes is that global warming is accelerating. He
points to the melting arctic and to Antarctica, where new data show
massive losses of ice to the sea.
Is it fair to say at this point that humans control the climate? Is that
possible?
"There's no doubt about that, says Hansen. "The natural changes, the speed
of the natural changes is now dwarfed by the changes that humans are
making to the atmosphere and to the surface."
Those human changes, he says, are driven by burning fossil fuels that pump
out greenhouse gases like CO2, carbon dioxide. Hansen says his research
shows that man has just 10 years to reduce greenhouse gases before global
warming reaches what he calls a tipping point and becomes unstoppable. He
says the White House is blocking that message.
"In my more than three decades in the government I've never witnessed such
restrictions on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public,"
says Hansen.
and
"Annoyed by the ambiguity, Hansen went public a year and a half ago,
saying this about the Bush administration in a talk at the University of
Iowa: "I find a willingness to listen only to those portions of scientific
results that fit predetermined inflexible positions. This, I believe, is a
recipe for environmental disaster."
--
Doug
As if freedom was a question of might
As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time-
"My country wrong or right"
I want to know what that's got to do
With what it takes to find out what's true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you
Jackson Browne
For America
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