James Hansen: 'They are selling indulgences'
Climate guru to boycott Copenhagen
The Australian
A LEADING scientist acclaimed as the grandfather of global warming has denounced the Copenhagen summit on climate change next week as a farce.
James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said he planned to boycott the UN conference because it was seeking a counter-productive agreement to limit emissions through a cap-and-trade system.
"They are selling indulgences there. The developed nations want to continue basically business as usual so they are expected to purchase indulgences to give some small amount of money to developing countries. They do that in the form of offsets and adaptation funds," he said.
Dr Hansen, 68, was one of the first voices to raise the alarm about rising global temperatures in the early 1980s, forecasting correctly that the planet would warm in the coming decades.
Next week he publishes his first book, Storms of my Grandchildren, warning that "our planet, with its remarkable array of life, is in imminent danger of crashing" and declaring, "It is our last chance." He decries the cap-and-trade system envisaged by governments as ineffective in stemming carbon emissions. Under such systems, governments set limits on overall emissions and polluters trade quotas among themselves.
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The Australian
A LEADING scientist acclaimed as the grandfather of global warming has denounced the Copenhagen summit on climate change next week as a farce.
James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said he planned to boycott the UN conference because it was seeking a counter-productive agreement to limit emissions through a cap-and-trade system.
"They are selling indulgences there. The developed nations want to continue basically business as usual so they are expected to purchase indulgences to give some small amount of money to developing countries. They do that in the form of offsets and adaptation funds," he said.
Dr Hansen, 68, was one of the first voices to raise the alarm about rising global temperatures in the early 1980s, forecasting correctly that the planet would warm in the coming decades.
Next week he publishes his first book, Storms of my Grandchildren, warning that "our planet, with its remarkable array of life, is in imminent danger of crashing" and declaring, "It is our last chance." He decries the cap-and-trade system envisaged by governments as ineffective in stemming carbon emissions. Under such systems, governments set limits on overall emissions and polluters trade quotas among themselves.
(Continued here.)
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