Some strange people still don't get it  --  this world is over as is.  When Global Warming takes over it will be too late (if it isn't already) to ditch the SUV and the internal combustion engine.  All it takes is a few keystrokes on your computer to bring up pictures of arctic meltdown, glacier retreat, increasing drought, etc., and all of it worldwide, not just a local phenomenon.  Is it a natural happening or a man-made occurrence?  Who cares! All we can do is try to figure out some way to handle disaster.

Des Emery

Hansen is the most visible face of climate-change science.  His career and credentials are impeccable, so the only way those with a vested interest in continuing the status quo can try to bring him down is by throwing out one red herring after another.  Even though none of them are legitimate, it is their hope that by associating Hansen's name with one made-up scandal after another, over a period of time, the public and lawmakers will eventually have a lower opinion of him, and so be less likely to listen to him.  It's a good strategy.  It's also dishonest.

"For how can you compete,  
Being honour bred, with one          
Who, were it proved he lies,  
Were neither shamed in his own  
Nor in his neighbours' eyes?"

(From W. B. Yeats's wise, sad 1914 poem, "To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing." 93 years later, it's still an unanswerable question.)