NASA's James Hansen: Canada is poised to destroy the world

http://www.nytimes.c...imate.html?_r=2

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GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”

 

 

If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.

 

 

Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history. If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now. That level of heat-trapping gases would assure that the disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would become intolerable. Twenty to 50 percent of the planet’s species would be driven to extinction. Civilization would be at risk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWInyaMWBY8

Maybe this is why BOC stopped releasing music?

blame canada. Its true after all

  On 5/11/2012 at 7:15 AM, compson said:

Maybe this is why BOC stopped releasing music?

Why, did they start trading oil futures instead.

Na because...

sorry.

Canada is the worse country I've never been to.

I've seen in person the machines they are moving to the tar sands project as we speak. They ship them from Korea to the inland port about 30 minutes away from where I live. There was a fairly big uproar around here because the transportation department had given the oil companies the all clear to move these monsters along the Locsha to save them money. Something like 167 different pieces.

These things are insanely huge...

Fuck that's huge!

And as an aside, it always bums me out when I click on a pic to see the larger version, only to find that it's the same size. :(

  On 5/11/2012 at 7:32 AM, feltcher said:

blame canada. Its true after all

The easily accessible reserves are gone from mainland North America; the Alberta Tar Sands are one of the only major reserves left anywhere. Blame the industrialized world for burning through all the easy stuff :p

I just want to be able to grow some coconut trees, is that so wrong?

I'm going to miss the snow and the land

I like how he wears a Tilley Endurables hat at all times, just in case anyone accuses him of being anti-Canada

i for one loved Waterworld and look forward to these developments.

  On 5/12/2012 at 12:43 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

i for one loved Waterworld and look forward to these developments.

Check it out guys, I found a lol in a global warming thread!

sorry guys.

I always wanted to live on the beach, I guess I will just wait for the beach to move to me.

i had to turn off that TED talk midway...too fucking depressing

i worked the tar sands for a spell. it was horrible.

Canada, bring the truth. USA please hurry and send Obama back to Kenya where he was born

Canada is a Frozen Shithole

All you "Canada" haters out there should be blaming the Conservative Government for exploiting and ruining this land. I for one did not vote, "EVER!" for those corrupted pieces of shit. Canadians ( all alike ) should wake the fuck up and contact there local MP's and what not....*end rant*

dude canada is awesome and you shouldnt let modern NASA tell you otherwise, this aint the same group of people that put man on the moon. it's just a NASA logo and buildings staffed with completely moronic crooks and liars

I don't hate Canada I just thought It was a good occasion to use that album titlte.

Mildly globalwarming related, I have always wondered how they calculate that the sea level would rise a certain amount if the ice on Greenland and Antarctica would melt. For example, they say the sea level would rise 7 meters if all the ice on Greenland would melt, surely that can't be right? Am I underestimating the amount of ice on Greenland or overestimating how much water there is in the sea and how much would be needed to even raise it by 1 meter? Anyone with real knowledge about how this sort of thing works around here?

  On 5/12/2012 at 5:18 PM, Kanakori said:

winterpeg is a Frozen Shithole