Dr. James Hansen, a veteran NASA climate expert, has been both lauded and criticized for moving beyond studying global warming to pressing lawmakers and the public to end unfettered coal burning and build a nonpolluting energy system.

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Dr. James Hansen is one of the most quoted climatologist.

In the beginning of his Administration, President Obama set a goal of doubling U.S. renewable energy generation capacity from wind, solar, and geothermal by 2012. This was a bold goal – to install as much renewables in the next three years as the U.S. had in the previous thirty. In addition, President Obama set the goal of doubling U.S. renewable manufacturing capacity, so that the U.S. can gain leadership in manufacturing these technologies as well.

Specifically, the goals are to double renewable energy capacity from the 28.8 gigawatts (GW) of solar, wind, and geothermal generation that had been installed in the U.S. as of the end of 2008 to 57.6 GW by the end of 2011 18 – enough to power 16.7 million homes 19 – and to double renewable energy manufacturing capacity from an annual output of 6 GW of renewable equipment (such as wind turbines and solar panels) at the end of 2008 to 12 GW by the end of 2011.

Lets keep the pedal to metal on renewables. And confront oil & coal company liars!!!

Global warming has a new name – global climate disruption.

It turns out that the global warming label has successfully been disrupted enough by reality that warmists are forced to re-brand the doomsday scenario. They tried this before with the ‘climate change‘ label, but even that meaningless term wasn’t broad enough to hide the fact that nature isn’t following the script.

They can set all the goals they want but it means nothing in the scope of all that is happening. Momma is gonna have to kick our ass !

Thailand is going have more frequent weather "events" super rain storms as a result of melting polar ice caps and warmer ocean water on the equator.

Sadly for the human race, we so often learn our lessons the hard way; a small percentage can do nothing but wring our hands in frustration, while the money machine continues, only to be struck down in the end, all the time saying "But what happened...?"

How the hell they think trading carbon allowances with undeveloped countries is going to help, I am f*cked if I know. Here we are - simple facts - Number 1 - the carbon and other greenhouse gas emmissions we are PRESENTLY creating/allowing, are screwing up the environment - Number 2 - trading carbon allowances with countries that are NOT PRESENTLY having any significant input to the greenhouse gas situation is NOT going to actually reduce the carbon levels - it merely makes some dickhead politician feel better about the amount of pollution his country produces, as he has purchased an arbitrary and imaginary "allowance" from someone else.

Why are they missing the point - what we are doing NOW is affecting the globe - we need to reduce the carbon footprint of the PLANET NOW...not trade imaginary numbers while the planet goes to hell in a handbasket.

They are treating it as if it was a game where they can make more money - not a life or death situation - not a simple case of doing something or watch your children die! That is the harsh reality - no joke - not kidding - do you want to kill your children, or try to make sure they can live?

Some good news. Californians voted overwhelmingly to keep their global warming law, 33% reduction of CO2 by 2020 and support the clean energy economy.