James Hansen: Copenhagen, meaningless

James Hansen's name is in the field of climate and the "authority" linked. The world's top climate experts, the United States, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is the first to propose more than 20 years ago, one of the scientists warning of global warming. James Hansen said: Copenhagen, there are many defects in global terms, a failure of the General Assembly might be better.

James Hansen is not opposed to deal with global warming - he had an analogy, the position of global warming should be treated "like former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill against the Nazis, former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's anti-slavery" firm - which he opposed, is The current framework of the proposed carbon emissions market, "total quantity control and emissions trading" system. In an interview with reporter an interview, he stressed that, as long as this mechanism is still running, as long as fossil fuels is still the cheapest source of energy, "the Copenhagen meeting emission reduction goal is self-deception, actual results will not be played," "To put it another Good does not necessarily have a good result. "

Made global warming, science has shown that the younger generation will continue to bring high-emission what kind of threat, geophysical data also show that in the next 20 years if we are able to gradually reduce the greenhouse gases caused by coal combustion emissions, and the prohibition of the use from the tar sands, oil shale and other mined non-traditional crude oil, it is possible to solve the problem - so that by mid-century, carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced 60%. To improve agriculture, forestry, industry, concentration of carbon dioxide from the current 385ppm can be reduced to 350ppm or less. "The Government had claimed that through the 'total control and emissions trading' mechanism will be able to achieve the above goals, is completely nonsensical."

As long as oil or cheap energy, the global demand for oil will continue to grow. Processed by the tar sands of the large-scale increase in oil products, has set off a wave of Alberta in Canada, the big oil boom, the province has become the production of unconventional oil, "Saudi Arabia." This is undoubtedly so that Hansen frown. "Total quantity control and emissions trading is to meet the needs of special interests. Must raise the row of carbon price, allow the market to make decisions from the perspective of energy efficiency, so that high-polluting fossil fuels, is always buried in the ground. Renewable energy and nuclear energy is the future on behalf of clean energy. "