Climate Scientists Awarded Prestigious Blue Planet Prize
Environmental News Service -- June 20, 2010
TOKYO, Japan, (ENS) - Two prominent climate scientists - one from Great Britain and one from the United States - have been are the winners of the 2010 Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award which is considered to be Japan's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
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Professor [Dr. Robert] Watson was chosen because of his significant part in providing scientific evidence for the depletion of the ozone layer in the 1980s, leading to the Montreal Protocol which banned ozone-depleting substances such as CFCs, and for his more recent role in bringing together science and policy to protect the global climate, as a former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Professor Watson said, " [...] It is a particular honor to receive it in the same year as James Hansen who has played a critical role in the climate change debate."
James Hansen, NASA Scientist, an early-warning advocate about the seriousness of the Climate Change problem facing the Planet, has finally been "awarded" for his tireless efforts:
[continuing with the 2010 ...] Prestigious Blue Planet Prize
Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology, his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in 1988 that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to limit the impacts of climate change.
He developed a practical climate model that has been proven by abundant weather observation data, and he pioneered the understanding and forecasting of the Earth's climate system. He predicted global warming in the future based on the climate model.
In determining responsibility for climate change, Hansen has said that the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on climate is not determined by current emissions, but by accumulated emissions over the lifetime of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Here Dr. Hansen explains the use of the Science Method, for listening to What the Planet is telling us ...
NASA | Taking Earth's Temperature
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A consistent trend of warming is visible in both the globlal temperature data and the global climate model.
James Hansen: We have a pretty good understanding now how sensitive the climate is to the increases in the greenhouse gases. This comes particularly from the history of the Earth.
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For nearly the last Million years, CO2 levels in the Atmosphere, stayed between a reliable "range of about 170 to 300 ppm (parts per million)"
The "Old Normal" is the zig-zaggy Red line which covers the long history of the Chart's 'Ice Core' measurements.
That vertical Red spike at the end, is the modern human "Industrial Age".
In 2008, we were at that Blue Dot level. Way above anything in approximately the last Million years!
This is the "New Normal", for CO2 accumulation rates in the Earth's Atmosphere.
That Carbon Skyscraper we are quietly building for Future Generations -- IS WHAT James Hansen has been NOT so Quietly, Warning us about for over 2 decades now!
Unfortunately this serious NASA Scientist, has been meet with obstruction, censorship, and a campaign of Mis-information -- which has blunted the urgency of his warnings, much like the annoying drone of the "Vuvuzelas horns", has drowned out any serious conversations, in a World Cup stadium:
Climate Scientists Awarded Prestigious Blue Planet Prize
Hansen has called for putting fossil fuel company executives, including the chief executives of ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, on trial for "high crimes against humanity and nature," on the grounds that these and other fossil-fuel companies have spread doubt and misinformation about global warming, in the same way that tobacco companies tried to hide the link between smoking and cancer.
During the administration of George W. Bush, Hansen said the White House edited climate-related press releases reported by federal agencies to make global warming seem less threatening. He claimed that he was unable to speak freely about the results of his research.
In a 2004 presentation at his alma mater, the University of Iowa, Hansen announced that he was told by high-ranking government officials not to talk about how human activities could have a dangerous effect on climate.
Hansen has called on President Barack Obama to abolish mountaintop coal mining and has demonstrated against the practice.
Let me see how did that CEO Charade go again, when Big Business, had to explain their internal memos and emails away, before Congress?
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Tobacco CEO's to America:
I believe that Nicotine is NOT addictive.
Sorry about that Cancer Victims -- it's just 'Bizness', you understand, right?
James Hansen is asserting that Oil and Coal Exec's have propagandized CO2 with the same moral and scientific equivalent as did Tobacco CEO's, about the Dangers of Cigarettes. Once they knew the "jig was up!"
Perhaps Hansen has Ads like this one in mind? It makes you "feel good" about CO2, but where's the Science to back up their claims? Help, Stop the CO2 Shortage, won't you?
Carbon Dioxide is LIFE
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That cheerful clip was from "The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change" aka CO2Science.org
Wikipedia: The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Arizona in the United States. [...]
The Center has a policy of not disclosing its funding sources because "ideas about the way the world of nature operates should stand or fall on their own merits, irrespective of the source of support for the person or organization that produces them."[4] According to its website, it accepts donations from foundations, individuals, and corporations, including ExxonMobil.[5] According corporate give statements and IRS filings, ExxonMobil has contributed $90,000 to the Center since 1998.
Hmmmm? ... 1998 ? wasn't that around the time that Dr Hansen got a "nationwide interview" on 60 Minutes? The one with the warning about that "'10-year Window' to do something to change the CO2 course were on" ...
No doubt you will recall similar Mis-information CO2 Clips from Climate Change Skeptics, they'd be interesting to see, if you can find them, and post them below.
Meanwhile take a listen to this sober NASA scientist, one more time. See if you can find a way to acknowledge him with more than just an "Atta Boy!" Right on.
James Hansen talks about the urgency of the climate crisis
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Congratulations! Dr. James Hansen, on the prestigious Blue Planet Award -- WTG!
Please continue sounding the Urgent Alarm of the dangers of excess Greenhouse Gases, in spite of the annoying drone of those "Vuvuzelas horns" from the industry-funded skeptics, who will no doubt, just keep blasting away ...
Those 1-dimensional 'speakers', will just end up sounding stupid, and SO Wrong, when all is said, and done. They kind of do, already.
And Maybe one day soon Sir, your Scientific Findings will be Acknowledged, and Acted on, by the 'Powers that Be'.
That is, if they can put down their Industry Party Horns, for more than a season ...