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Posted Wed Jan 5 2011: from London Independent:
Tax on carbon: The only way to save our planet? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1294190023
Professor James Hansen's last formal engagement was delivering a keynote paper to the American Geophysical Union Autumn meeting. After that, he spent the holidays not enjoying wintry walks or taking advantage of the sales, but doing something altogether more industrious. "I'm writing a paper to provide the scientific basis for [law] suits against the government - just to make them do their job," he says..."I realised that if we [scientists] don't help to connect the dots from what the science says to what the implications are for policy, then those dots get connected by people who have special interests," says Hansen, explaining his decision. "I think scientists are able to be objective. Governments just don't face the facts clearly. And it's scary because as scientists we can see what the implications are for our own children and grandchildren."
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'Doc Michael says:
You know what's really scary? That we have to find this story about a courageous American scientist ... in a London newspaper.
Why oh why is American media so (largely) pathetic?

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