James Hansen is at it agian.

Note by Me: I don't agree with the JBS, but they are right on this issue.

By Timothy

From http://www.jbs.org/node/6763

NASA Scientist Predicts CO2 Bottom Line for the Planet
Ann Shibler JBS Friday January 4, 2008


James Hansen, the mainstream media’s favorite proponent of global warming is at it again. This time he insists that 350 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the absolute limit and anything over that will be quite catastrophic.
Follow this link to the original source: "Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million"
NASA scientist James Hansen pontificated at a San Francisco academic conclave on global warming recently that the new bottom line for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million. "The evidence indicates we've aimed too high — that the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2 is no more than 350 ppm," he said after his presentation.
Hansen said the Earth is already at 383 parts per million, so, by his estimate we’ve gone too far. His solution is to go cold turkey from coal, gas, and oil use immediately. To achieve this he would ban all new coal-fired power plants, phase out old coal-fired generators, and a place a tax on carbon so high that tar sands and oil shale will be left in the ground forever. Americans, of course, would be left sitting in cold, dark houses if this came to fruition. Naturally, he proposes his recipe for economic disaster for the United States, but not for China — a nation he says should be allowed to continue to build and operate coal-fired power plants. Like radical leftists generally, he would have U.S. citizens collectively fall on their swords so that so-called developing nations can raise their standard of living.
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Interestingly, this is the same James Hansen whose NASA team seriously fudged some numbers recently that made global warming seem much worse than it really is. He had listed 1998 as the hottest year on record, when in fact it was 1934. The "error" has been corrected, but it was done quietly, oh so very quietly.
And isn’t this the same James Hansen who received $720,000 from George Soros, the master manipulator of public opinion, in order to push the global warming agenda via the mass media? He also received a $250,000 award from the Heinz Foundation. Interesting.
Even his colleagues are beginning to distance themselves from Hansen and his rantings. NASA administrator Michael Griffin disagrees with Hansen’s rash attempts to limit CO2 emissions via his self-created 350 ppm limit theory, saying:
To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change. I guess I would ask which human beings where and when are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.

Hundreds of climate scientists and meteorologists disagree with Hansen’s conclusions and recommendations. In particular, David Whitehouse, a BBC correspondent says "the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001." He believes global warming may be ending.
Perhaps James Hansen’s credibility will finally be doubted with this latest hysteria. And maybe the tide is turning and 2007 will be looked upon as the year the whole man-made global-warming theory started to crumble. We look forward to its final demise. We look to the future for better and sound science, without political agendas as the driving force. What a relief that would be!