James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

…

Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading.

In an interview with the Guardian he said: “When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that’s a crime.”

source

I am sure Nobel Prize winner Al Gore is completely OK with this; after all this is a settled question every scientist who has examined Hansen’s work has found it to be 100% accurate. Oh wait that would be wrong. The guy who is calling for people to be prosecuted was found to have been using data that was incorrectly adjusted for the Y2K bug and recently has (or NASA has been where he is a leading climate scientist) been accused of cooking the books on temperature data (NASA’s data is out of whack with other measurements).

I don’t know why anyone would think there might be reasons to dispute his conclusions.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm by Chad and is filed under Brilliant, but uncategorizable. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.