USA Senate Majority Leader, Senator McConnell states, "Climate deal will mean job losses and rate hikes."
Can everyone agree this is nothing but Republican Rhetoric? Okay? It is meaningless. Certainly McConnell has power to effect US policy, but, this is rhetoric. What good is a leader that holds power and sets USA policy backed by nothing. Will USA policy achieve anything of substance with empty values of rhetoric?
The climate movement has to focus on building its' clarity and power. That is going to happen with clear educational standards with valid publication.
"Storms of My Grandchildren" (click here) Check the public libraries to borrow a copy.
December 27, 2009
By Susan Salter Reynolds
...Most scientists (click here) rarely experience the luxury of certainty. But we expect them to speak with authority. We expect them to make impossible predictions and judge them on their accuracy. Even more, we expect them to stay above or at least outside public debates. In "Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity," James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise; a scientist at the breaking point -- the point at which he is willing to sacrifice his credibility to make a stand to avert disaster, to offer up the fruits of four-plus decades of inquiry and ingenuity just in case he might change the course of history.
Hansen is often called the father of global warming. He was the creator, more than 30 years ago, of one of the first climate models, Model Zero, which he used to make a series of accurate predictions about climate change in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He was invited to the White House; he has testified before Congress; he is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies....
His first grandchild is a reason that James Hansen wants to warn about climate change. (Makiko Sato / Bloomsbury USA / Walker and Co.)
As Dr. Hansen has stated the next generation and the generation after that has a great deal of interest in the actions we take now. It is the truth tellers and those that actually love the generations that follow that have center stage. We must continue to drive the interest in the truth by expressing the love of our generations to follow.
...We start with climate diagnostics (click here) — people are usually most interested in climate change itself. But cause-and-effect analysis requires also data on climate forcings (which drive climate change) and feedbacks (which amplify or diminish climate change)....
Can everyone agree this is nothing but Republican Rhetoric? Okay? It is meaningless. Certainly McConnell has power to effect US policy, but, this is rhetoric. What good is a leader that holds power and sets USA policy backed by nothing. Will USA policy achieve anything of substance with empty values of rhetoric?
The climate movement has to focus on building its' clarity and power. That is going to happen with clear educational standards with valid publication.
December 27, 2009
By Susan Salter Reynolds
...Most scientists (click here) rarely experience the luxury of certainty. But we expect them to speak with authority. We expect them to make impossible predictions and judge them on their accuracy. Even more, we expect them to stay above or at least outside public debates. In "Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity," James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise; a scientist at the breaking point -- the point at which he is willing to sacrifice his credibility to make a stand to avert disaster, to offer up the fruits of four-plus decades of inquiry and ingenuity just in case he might change the course of history.
Hansen is often called the father of global warming. He was the creator, more than 30 years ago, of one of the first climate models, Model Zero, which he used to make a series of accurate predictions about climate change in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He was invited to the White House; he has testified before Congress; he is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies....
His first grandchild is a reason that James Hansen wants to warn about climate change. (Makiko Sato / Bloomsbury USA / Walker and Co.)
As Dr. Hansen has stated the next generation and the generation after that has a great deal of interest in the actions we take now. It is the truth tellers and those that actually love the generations that follow that have center stage. We must continue to drive the interest in the truth by expressing the love of our generations to follow.
...We start with climate diagnostics (click here) — people are usually most interested in climate change itself. But cause-and-effect analysis requires also data on climate forcings (which drive climate change) and feedbacks (which amplify or diminish climate change)....
