Feb 19 2009
Former astronaut dissents from man-made global warming while Hansen says coal=death
Harrison Schmitt , former astronaut and U.S. Senator, has openly declared his dissent from the theory of man-made global warming, saying, “I don’t think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect.”
Schmitt, 74, is scheduled to speak at the International Conference on Climate Change being held next month in New York. He was invited to speak when orgainizers heard he had resigned from The Planetary Society , a non-profit focused on space exploration, after they blamed humans for global warming.
Schmitt received his science degree from the California Instutute of Technology, studied geology at the University of Oslo in Norway, and received a doctorate in geology from Harvard. He said that science has gotten mixed up with politics, severely undermining the debate - “It’s one of the few times you’ve seen a sizable portion of scientists who ought to be objective take a political position and it’s coloring their objectivity.”
Meanwhile, James Hansen, leader of the global warming fear monger camp, declared in last sunday’s Guardian that “coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.” In a rant far removed from the objectivity needed for valid science, he also refers to trains carrying coal as “death trains” and coal-fired power plants as “factories of death.”
While this may seem a little, this is actually toned down rhetoric from when he spoke in front of the Iowa Utilities Board in 2007:
If we cannot stop the building of more coal-fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains - no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.
The idea of conjuring up images of Nazi death camps in order to push a “scientific” agenda should be offensive to even the most ardent man-made global warming fanatics. Let us have an honest debate over the science, but there is simply no place for this nonsense on any side.
Sources: Boston Herald - Former astronaut speaks out on global warming February 15, 2009
The Guardian - Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them. February 15, 2009
Direct Testimony of James E. Hansen before the Iowa Utitilies Board 11/05/2007
