James Hansen Why I must speak out about climate change

This was Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen and Yasuko Namba.

Ronny Hansen, Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara (A C.4 60 5 Add.26)

In today s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes. Hansen predicted that capitalism would suffer from a permanent underinvestment crisis.

And Hansen is hard over for nuclear power, as are most climatologists who are engaging this issue seriously.

Rob Hall, we heard by radio, was up here, at this point in the storm with Doug Hansen.

A classic example is James Hansen, a NASA climatologist pushing for 350 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Those who know their history will recognize that Summers is reviving an argument advanced by the American economist Alvin Hansen in 1938. Owing to a slowdown in population growth, and thus lower demand for capital, the world, Hansen claimed, faced a problem of secular, or structural, unemployment in the decades before us.

Previous positions include partner, Bugge, Arentz Hansen law firm Director General, and Head of Business and Energy Tax Section, Tax Law Department, Ministry of Finance.

A climatic model developed by James Hansen of NASA that took all three factors into account came closer to simulating observed temperature changes than had previous models.

In the 1930 s, the economist Alvin Hansen argued that opportunities for new investment in already rich countries were drying up. Investment growth had depended on population growth, technological innovation, and westward expansion.

Hansen described them as part of a brighter future for the planet. But using bio fuels to combat climate change must rate as one of the poorest global solutions to any great challenge in recent times.

COPENHAGEN One of the stranger spectacles of the climate change debate was the sight, earlier this month, of NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen marching hand in hand with Hollywood actress Darryl Hannah outside the Capitol Coal Power Plant in Washington, DC.

Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.

But his argument was not foolish it was the assumptions underlying it that turned out to be wrong. Hansen did not anticipate the war s huge capital consuming effect, and that of many smaller wars, plus the long Cold War, in keeping capital scarce.

But I would never want to shut down discussion about these issues whether it is with Gore, Hansen, or Krugman. Everybody involved in this discussion should spend more time building and acknowledging good arguments, and less time telling others what they cannot say.

Japan provides good lessons about where the true risks are, as it has been suffering from deflation or near deflation for 14 years. Since 1991, Japan has been mired in what Harvard economist Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes, once described as secular stagnation.

Increasingly, alarmists claim that we should not be allowed to hear such facts. In June, Hansen proclaimed that people who spread disinformation about global warming CEOs, politicians, in fact anyone who doesn t follow Hansen s narrow definition of the truth should literally be tried for crimes against humanity.

Former US Vice President Al Gore s climate adviser, Jim Hansen, put it bluntly Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

At its 5th meeting, on 10 October, the Committee heard the following petitioners Ali Najab, Frank Ruddy, Douihi Mohamed Rachid, Latifa Aït Baala, Gajmoula Ebbi, Ghallaoui Sidati, JoMarie Fecci, Rabbani Mohamed Abdelkader, Ronny Hansen, Anja Oksalampi, Ahmed Boukhari, and Mustapha Bouh and Roch Wamytan (see A C.4 60 SR.5).

Gore and Hansen want a moratorium on coal fired power plants, but neglect the fact that the hundreds of new power plants that will be opened in China and India in the coming years could lift a billion people out of poverty. Negating this outcome through a moratorium is clearly no unmitigated good.

In March, Al Gore s science adviser and prominent climate researcher, Jim Hansen, proclaimed that when it comes to dealing with global warming, the democratic process isn t working. Although science has demonstrated that CO2 from fossil fuels is heating the planet, politicians are unwilling to follow his advice and stop building coal fired power plants.

Hansen suggests that there will eventually be sea level rises of 24 meters (80 feet), with a six meter rise happening just this century. Little wonder that fellow environmentalist Bill McKibben states that we are engaging in a reckless drive by drowning of much of the rest of the planet and much of the rest of creation.

Two little girls had died in an attack on a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and he echoed the words of the Commissioner General of UNRWA, Mr. Hansen, who had denounced the daily violation of children's right to life in the occupied territories.

The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world s leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change. It is a measure of the seriousness of our problem that CO2 is already at 386 ppm, and is rising by two ppm each year.

Mr. Hansen (Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), responding to the statement by the representative of Israel, said that the Israeli delegation should compare the text of the interview which he had given to The Jordan Times as cited by the representative of Israel with the version on the Agency's website and draw its own conclusions.