High Priest of AGW speaks

[ace00]

"The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. When I testified against the proposed Kingsnorth power plant, I estimated that in its lifetime it would be responsible for the extermination of about 400 species "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...er-plants-coal

I do not know if the comparison to the Holocaust was deliberate but it sickens me.
This man (Hansen) is clearly deranged.

[BrilloPad]

According to those lunes, every kind of power plant is wrong or evil.

I'm heartily sick of Greenpeace, FOE, and all the rest.

I suppose their answer is to reduce the population by 95%.

Which may or may not be a good idea, depending which percent you end up in.

Dont Greenpeace want the population of the UK to be about 40million? And they want to encourage birth control to get there gradually?

[Solidec]

40million is not a bad number, getting there without ruining society and economy alike is the hard bit.

How do you ensure there are enough wealth creating young people around to offset against the ever longer living OAP's in this country?

In fact I wonder how the education and employment figures look for people between the age of 10 and 40 now and 20 years ago.

[ace00]

Actually I agree on de-population. In fact I am a generally green type. Most of the people who go on about AGW being nonsense are green. It really pees us off that this foolishness is distracting from real green issues.
I think we need to reduce fossil fuel use, increase solar, geotherm and kinetic.
A huge issue is the destruction of natural habits for which we are guilty as charged and this leads to massive extinction rate and indeed local climatic problems, increased flooding, etc. Flip-all to do with CO2.
And don't even get me started on the entirely predictable un-intended consequences of using ethanol based fuels.

[NotAllThere]

... I estimated that in its lifetime it would be responsible for the extermination of about 400 species "

I estimate there won't be any. In fact, I estimate there will be 400 new species emerging as a direct result of the power station.

One largish asteroid, and you can wave bye-bye to far more than 400 species - does this guy not know anything about evolution and paleontology?

[shaunbhoy]

40million is not a bad number, getting there without ruining society and economy alike is the hard bit.

Are you kidding?
That would be the easy bit, it is just a matter of political will.
Most of the basic rules are in a very interesting book called Mein Kampf.

HTH