Hansen: Cameron Climate Rhetoric Farcical, Given Fracking Policy; Paris "Screwing Next Generation"
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Asked by climate policy website Carbon Brief about fracking, he said: “Well, that’s screwing your children and grandchildren. Because if you do that, then there is no way way to avoid the consequences [of] multi-metre sea level rise. But we can’t do that. And that is what the science says crystal clear. And yet the politicians pretend not to hear it, or not to understand it.”
Hansen, who is attending a Conference of the Parties event for the first time, told the UN: “What I am hearing is that the heads of state are planning to clap each other on the back and say this is a very successful conference. If that is what happens, we are screwing the next generation, because we are doing the same as before.”
According to The Guardian, he added: “[A rise of ] 2C is definitely dangerous. We are at the point now where temperatures are hitting the 1C mark and are are on a path above 1C. Even if we reduce emissions 6 percent a year we will still get 1C.
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“Instead we hear the same old thing as Kyoto [in 1997]. We are asking each country to cap emissions, or reduce emissions. In science when you do a well conducted experiment you expect to get the same result. So why are we talking about doing the same again? This is half-arsed and half-baked.”
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http://www.desmog.uk/2015/12/03/cameron-s-climate-call-ko-d-expert-james-hansen
