Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 28 January 2006
The top climate scientist at NASA, James E. Hansen, says that the Bush Administration tried to silence him after he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth 'a different planet.' The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions.
As long as nobody thinks that carbon dioxid emissions have an impact on global warming, with results like Katrina, nothing will change. Perhaps the world needs more such disasters to change.