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A Scientist´s Misguided Crusade
New York Times, by Joe Nocera

Original Article

Posted By:Northcross, 3/5/2013 11:10:27 PM

Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for the highly contentious Keystone XL pipeline, which Canada hopes to build to move its tar sands oil to refineries in the United States. In effect, the statement said there were no environmental impediments that would prevent President Obama from approving the pipeline. Two hours and 20 minutes later, I received a blast e-mail containing a statement by James Hansen, the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA — i.e., NASA’s chief climate scientist.

Comments:
Once again, James Hansen makes a fool of himself and sullies the reputation of NASA in the process. This is getting very tiresome, but apparently he is so well connected politically, he is untouchable.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bridgepard, 3/5/2013 11:40:08 PM     (No. 9210491)

State Dept and the NYTimes have now cleared the way for Obama to approve it.

Obama - what a leader!!!


Reply 2 - Posted by: Islander, 3/6/2013 12:03:13 AM     (No. 9210509)

Funny, the high school chemistry I took just said a carbon chain was a carbon chain -- 1 carbon atom with 4 valence sites and when chained together 2 connected to other carbons and 2 connected to hydrogen atoms.
Never knew there were "diary" and "non-dirty" ones. Does this mean burning a ... 10 carbon long chain from Canadian tar sands is somehow dirtier than burning (oxidizing, actually) a similar 10 carbon chain from the Eagle Ford shale oil field in south Texas?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: FenwayFrank, 3/6/2013 12:12:25 AM     (No. 9210515)

Hansen belongs in a nice rubber room, filled with all his carbon tax buddies, and that idiot at CNN who thinks asteroids come from AGW.


Reply 4 - Posted by: joew9, 3/6/2013 12:15:28 AM     (No. 9210516)

Even the whackos think Hansen is a whacko.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Soldiers Father, 3/6/2013 1:34:53 AM     (No. 9210565)

Every day I see tank cars on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, owned by Warren Buffett, passing thru my town. I think they are transporting oil. The traffic is so great, there was a derailment north of here in MO. I don´t think they spilled much oil


Reply 6 - Posted by: deepthinker, 3/6/2013 1:43:45 AM     (No. 9210569)

Funny... This guy is now "misguided" (ie "a whacko!) with Obama in office. When GWB was president this guy could do no wrong so far as the MSM was concerned.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Grant Hodges, 3/6/2013 5:07:07 AM     (No. 9210613)

Islander rightly reminds that oil is oil. So-called scientists like Hansen reveal the narrow scope of their training. Keystone was held up for Buffett´s benefit, not for the protestors, or to stop the non-existent problem of "dirty" oil. The placarding of science on non-scientific opinions is preventing any sound discussion of public policy.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 3/6/2013 8:59:24 AM     (No. 9210933)

To a Lo-fo-vo, this is undoubtedly the first pipeline to be built, at least in the lower 48. The US currently has 2.6 million miles of energy pipelines in use ( as of 2003 ) . The safety record is impeccable when one considers all of the welded or bolted connections involved -which has to number in the billions.

But yeah, let´s have Hillary and John Kerry study this for years until we find some stories about the victims of this dangerous monster.


Reply 9 - Posted by: LudicrousSextus, 3/6/2013 9:07:42 AM     (No. 9210953)

Using ´Hansen´ and ´climate scientist´ without tossing in the phrase - thoroughly debunked...

Would be viewed in some circles as an ´incomplete sentence´.

We´ll overlook the incomplete gray matter resident in Hansen´s skull...


Reply 10 - Posted by: drkillj0y, 3/6/2013 4:40:11 PM     (No. 9211890)

Junkscientists aren´t Scientists.
They are merely PolitBureau Propagandists with science degree.



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