{"id":33176,"date":"2013-01-27T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=33176"},"modified":"2013-01-27T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:38:24","slug":"article_26955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_26955\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Contribute to Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/environment.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environment and Climate Research Center page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988. The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he&#8217;s been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most recently to a small gathering of religious leaders outside the White House last week. The grandfatherly scientist has the long face of a man used to seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=right-number-to-combat-climate-change\">bad news in the numbers <\/a>and speaks with the thick, even cadence of the northern Midwest, where he grew up, a trait that also helps ensure that his sometimes convoluted science gets across.<\/p>\n<p>This cautious man has also been arrested multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>His acts of civil disobedience started in 2009, and he was first arrested in 2011 for protesting the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=how-to-turn-tar-sands-into-oil-slideshow\">Canada&#8217;s tar sands<\/a> and, especially, the Keystone XL pipeline proposal that would serve to open the spigot for such oil even wider. &#8220;To avoid passing tipping points, such as initiation of the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, we need to limit the climate forcing severely. It&#8217;s still possible to do that, if we phase down carbon emissions rapidly, but that means moving expeditiously to clean energies of the future,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;Moving to tar sands, one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fuels on the planet, is a step in exactly the opposite direction, indicating either that governments don&#8217;t understand the situation or that they just don&#8217;t give a damn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds: &#8220;People who care should draw the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hansen is not alone in caring. In addition to a groundswell of opposition to the 2,700-kilometer-long Keystone pipeline, 17 of his fellow climate scientists joined him in signing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.350.org\/scientists-call-president-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline\">letter urging Pres. Barack Obama to reject<\/a> the project last week. Simply put, building the pipeline-and enabling more tar sands production-runs &#8220;counter to both national and planetary interests,&#8221; the researchers wrote. &#8220;The year of review that you asked for on the project made it clear exactly how pressing the climate issue really is.&#8221; Obama seemed to agree in his second inaugural address this week, noting &#8220;we will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hansen has been publicly speaking about climate change since 1988. 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