Pacific Spirit Marine Institute

Earth In Crisis; We can’t say they didn’t warn us; or can we?

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Decades ago, James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York was crying carbon dioxide,CO2 in the atmosphere would lead to global warming sooner than had been previously predicted. In 1981 Hansen was ringing the alarms that climatologists had missed their predictions by as many as 30 years.

Since then Hansen has been facing an uphill climb with more and more obstacles being placed before him by administration after administration. He says now, “Interference with communication of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.”

Is the government really trying to silence science? Why would the government, who in reality, is the employee of the tax payer, want to keep the truth from their bosses?

Evidently the government no longer works for the tax payers. Hansen thinks the policy makers are “the people who need to know are ignorant of the actual status of the matter, and the gravity of the matter, and most important, the urgency of the matter.”

Exxon Mobil profits exceed $11.7 Billion for the 4th quarter of 2007 so it’s no surprise they find themselves with heavy pockets. Their pockets are even heavier when the fat politicians crawl inside to pick them.

Jim Hansen was one of Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people in 2006.

Labels: CO2, Global Warming, James Hansen, Speak no Evil