James Hansen gets grilled by attorney in Omaha after spewing nonsense
Anthony Watts / 5 hours ago May 1, 2016
From the Powerline blog:
Nebraska attorney Dave Begley is our faithful Omaha correspondent. Dave reports: (video follows)
Friday night in a crowd of 500 to 700 people at Creighton University it appeared that I was not only the only conservative, I was also the only person who was thinking clearly and critically. One of global warming’s oldest and most revered leaders, Dr. James Hansen, spoke prior to his protest at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting on Saturday. I have never heard such nonsense in my life. He gave a rambling and incoherent presentation for nearly two hours. Three times he forgot the question or lost his train of thought. Since the Jesuits taught me logic, I could easily identity his use of the context, bulls-eye, omission and appeal to authority fallacies.
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The really shocking thing for me was how many times he contradicted himself and made admissions against interest. If he was under oath and subject to cross examination at a trial, Power Line’s own John Hinderaker would carve him up.
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His main assertion was that the ice sheets were melting and it was causing the sea level to rise. He predicted that coastal cities would be under water. No date given. Not even a range of dates. And he never identified man as the cause of this impending disaster and that gradual warming is not just the natural evolution of the Earth over time. One young woman asked him “when Earth will be uninhabitable.” Hansen assured her that would not happen in her lifetime but it was still an emergency. Act now!
The deadline aspect of the CAGW scam is actually quite important. Doomsday is coming but no range of dates is given. If a date is given it is so far off that you will forget that the prediction was made when the date passes or you will be dead due to natural causes. But it is essential for the government to spend other people’s money now to save Mother Earth.
Howler number one: Violence between nations is caused by global warming. Tell that to ISIS. Howler number two: It is too hot to work outside. No lawn mowing this summer by your kids. Howler number three: 10,000 people per day die due to air pollution. I suspect that if that number is accurate, people are not dying from carbon dioxide poisoning. Howler number four: His predictions about future events based upon his models were “as certain at the law of gravity.” Roll over, Newton, tell Einstein the news.
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I asked the first question. I reminded the Iowa native that he was in the home city of the Union Pacific Railroad and it has had recent significant layoffs due to a serious decline in coal car loadings. I then asked him, since his models have been mostly wrong for 30 years, why we should believe his models were any more accurate in predicting the disaster that is going to hit when everyone in the room was dead 70 years from now.
He asserted that his predictions were not based upon models but “observable evidence.” False. He dodged, stalled and avoided. He threw out some numbers and put up a slide depicting the Hiroshima bomb explosion. His answer was non-responsive. If I could have cross examined him at length I would have destroyed his answer, but he knew the format.
James Hansen is not impressive at all. If he is the best the Greens have, we conservatives should win this fight. The whole CAGW scam is based upon speculation and the veneer of science. The proposed remedies are costly fantasies. Their only real solution is to tax Americans back into pre-industrial poverty.
(added) Here is part 3 of a four parts video where the question is asked:
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The caption for the video reads:
At the request of Nebraskans for Peace, Dr. James Hansen came to Omaha Nebraska to speak in favor of the shareholder resolution regarding climate change that NFP had placed on the agenda for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting. Nebraskans for Peace worked primarily with Dr. Richard Miller at Creighton University to have Dr. Hansen give an informative lecture about his work to stop global warming and climate change from getting much worse.
Full report here h/t to reader QQboss
It should be noted that Berkshire Hathaway shareholders rejected Hansen’s nonsense in a vote.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/01/james-hansen-gets-grilled-by-attorney-in-omaha-after-spewing-nonsense/
markstoval says:
May 1, 2016 at 3:52 am
James Hansen is not impressive at all. If he is the best the Greens have, we conservatives should win this fight. The whole CAGW scam is based upon speculation and the veneer of science. The proposed remedies are costly fantasies. Their only real solution is to tax Americans back into pre-industrial poverty.
I agree that James Hansen is not impressive; he never has been. Hansen was the typical bureaucratic “scientist”; he sold catastrophe to the public for his masters in government who want to use “global warming” to increase their power over the people and the economy.
The problem is with the comment “we conservatives should win this fight”. You are not just fighting James Hansen or “scientists” like him. The fight is against the State itself. The US government at all levels, along with its willing partners in the main-stream press, science journals, and elsewhere, are pushing this “global warming” delusion. And since the climate has, indeed, warmed since the end of The Little Ice Age the idea of “global warming” is superficially saleable. (or you can sell it to the superficial — which is most of the neo-leftists in this country)
The only reason that the US Empire has not gone even further in its draconian embrace of the idiocy of “global warming” is that Mother Nature has not played ball. She has given us some harsh winters and fairly mild summers around the globe. (with great variations as always) She has given us no warming at all for 20 years even with the US governmental agencies cooking the books.
The story has changed over time to fit the propaganda needs of the warmists, but we were promised early on that the night time temps would warm in low altitudes, along with the daytime and nightime temperatures at high latitudes like in Canada and Russia. What is wrong with that? Well, they say we will all drown is the floating ice at the north pole melts. (they did not take high school physics!)
It is hard to win a propaganda war against the State and the Media. We can only hope that Mother Nature remains on our side. That is the only thing that might bring some sense into this fight. |
