Climate Policy

[kandrathe]

Here is an article on Waxman-Markey by Dr. James Hansen (Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies). Dr. Hansen is a somewhat controversial figure in this debate, but I thought it would add an interesting counterpoint.

For example, the famous physicist Dr. Freeman Dyson said, "The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers... Hansen has turned his science into ideology.” Regarding his and others heresy on global warming Dyson says, "My objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have." This resonates with me, as I'm also a subscriber to the heresy of being an open skeptic of this complex topic.