James Hansen

EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 9
Posted 1 day, 12 hours ago Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video down by the close of business today, at pain of disciplinary action from EPA ethics officials, and to submit any future drafts to EPA officials before posting.
Cap-but-don't-trade

Groups use 350’s big day to fight cap-and-trade 12
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago The open-door policy for the International Day of Climate Action this Saturday means not every group will be on-message.
Knock Me Over With a Paradigm Shift

The best part about climate change 1
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Sure, climate chaos has wreaked havoc on the planet and on our correspondent's personal life, but there are glimmers of hope -- most recently, in the form of strangers wielding hammers.
OUTFLANKED

‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill 104
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Acolytes of climatologist James Hansen are not happy with the climate legislation coming out of Washington. And boy do they have some strange ways of showing it.
James Hansen on Obama, climate legislation, and the scourge of coal 8
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago A recent New York Times article pointedly asked whether NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen still matters. The subtext to the story was, has Hansen been too vocal and too unconventional in his criticism of Washington’s response to climate change to be taken seriously?
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
The tale of two Jims

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, ACES edition 38
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A curious thing happened at Tuesday's meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: famed climate-change skeptic James Inhofe (R-Okla.) cited NASA climatologist Jim Hansen in his screed against the House climate bill.
NASA’s James Hansen arrested in protest on mountaintop removal 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Why is the Obama Administration Supporting Union-Busting Thugs?

VIDEO: Violent Massey attack on Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds 2
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Question of the week: Has any Obama administration or West Virginia state official publicly denounced the violence by the mountaintop removal operators this week?
Coal River Mountain Action

The story of our civil disobedience against mountaintop-removal coal mining 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Several people asked for more information about the 23 June civil disobedience near Coal River Mountain. We need Dickens to describe the local situation, but you can glean something from a statement I was reading at the time we were arrested (reprinted below).
94-year-old Ken Hechler, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen join coalfield residents

Live at Coal River—mass arrests against mountaintop removal 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Ken Hechler, the legendary West Virginia congressman, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (executive director of Rainforest Action Network), and Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, and dozens of other coalfield residents after crossing onto the property of leading mountaintop removal coal mining company, Massey Energy.
Heavyweight championship

Gore vs. Hansen: Enviros take sides in debate over House climate bill 57
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is polarizing the environmental community. Longtime climate crusader Al Gore says we should do all we can to get the legislation passed; top climate scientist James Hansen says we should demand a better bill. Activists and environmental groups are picking sides or staking out positions in the middle.
Stand By Me

BC voters back carbon tax 1
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Carbon emissions met its first big electoral test this week, as British Columbia voters rewarded BC premier Gordon Campbell, who last July instituted North America's first major carbon tax, with a third four-year term.
Memo to Hansen 2: Why is the country’s top anti-science blog reprinting your stuff? 3
Posted 6 months ago
Move on

Memo to James Hansen: Your opposition to Waxman-Markey is ill-conceived and unhelpful 8
Posted 6 months ago
There isn’t going to be a carbon tax nor should there be. Get over it and move on.
Conspicuous absence

60 Minutes on coal: Dancing around the question 9
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
60 Minutes manages to spend 10 minutes on coal without asking the most important question: Can we stop using it?
Myth: Unlike cap-and-trade, a carbon tax is simple, immune to manipulation, & politically palatable 44
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
A strange-bedfellows political coalition, everyone from the CEO of Exxon to climate scientist James Hansen, supports a carbon tax as an alternative to cap-and-trade. Tax proponents allege that cap-and-trade is too complicated; too friendly to financial industry tricks and manipulations; too open to loopholes, cheating, and special pleading; too weak to work.
Motion to reconsider

U.S. groups desert precautionary principle, 53 to 6 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
After ducking the matter for a decade, U.S. environmental organizations finally pulled together a climate policy, but the National Call to Action on Global Warming issued by 53 organizations on March 5 is a mistake and should be reconsidered.
Certain as Death and Carbon Taxes

Carbon tax only way to keep planet cool: Hansen 0
Posted 8 months ago
Saul Griffith calculates what we need to do to keep the world we evolved in 7
Posted 8 months ago