James Hansen and Paul Beckwith at COP21

With everything that's going on I can't get excited by anything that comes out of COP-out 21, including support for the geoengineering fantasy.

The quest for a change of heart (and resulting honesty) reminds me of watching GenSec Leonid Brezhnev for some aesopian sign that there were "shortcomings" in hte Soviet economy.

Or the story of mullah Nasruddin who is found eating one hot, red chili after another.

When asked why he is doing this he replies "I'm looking for a sweet one"

The people who are running the COP21 show are the same ones that are running a decaying Empire and taking us to war.

Going to trust them?

James Hansen Talks Climate Change at COP21

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Paul Beckwith,

1 December, 2015

Three videos of great Q/A after James Hansen’s riveting talk on climate change threats at COP21, my first day in Paris.

Needless to say, he was surrounded by people with great questions afterwards [1]. I told him that I have created 99 videos on abrupt climate change, including a Series of Nine on his open source paper, which was posted online in the summer.

He was impressed, and said he’d go here to find them.  Every bit helps.  170,300 views and still counting.  My next video is my jubilee, at number 100.  David tells me that 500,000 is not that far off as a result of this work and YOUR support.  I wholly agree.

After his talk, I had opportunity to speak with at length with him about Arctic temperature amplification, jet stream slowing and waviness and the risks of abrupt climate change from methane feedbacks.

Although he has been a strong supporter of Bill McKibbon’s group 350Now on the necessity of returning to global atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 350 ppm, Hansen would not specifically use the words Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). I also spoke on the necessity of the 3 legs of the solutions stool: 1) Zero emissions as soon as possible, 2) Remove CO2 from the atmosphere with CDR, and 3) Apply Solar Radiation Management (SRM) to cool the Arctic.

James Hansen Talks climate change at COP21 (1/3) // Published on Dec 1, 2015

‘At first I was not able to get into the basement room for this  talk in Paris off-site (Naomi Klein was on earlier) but I persisted and succeeded with only minutes to spare. I filmed the 45 minute talk including the Q/A and divided the footage into three parts for YouTube posting.’
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James Hansen talks climate change at COP21 (2/3) // Published on Dec 1, 2015

‘Here is the second part of three of James Hansen’s presentation on climate injustice at COP21 in Paris.’

I sat on the floor in front
of the crowd and filmed
this priceless, candid video.
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James Hansen talks climate change at COP21 (3/3) // Published on Dec 1, 2015

‘This third and final video that I filmed in Paris on my first day there is the conclusion of Hansen’s talk and the Q/A. The crowd hung on every word of the presentation. I had an unobstructed view for filming the entire event.’———- ———-

Cathy Cowan Becker’s photo, ‘Last night I got to see Naomi Klein and James Hansen at Place to B. Naomi has to leave quickly, but here’s the media scrum around Hansen.’

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AMEG has received a signficant plug from Bloomberg Business, shown here:  ‘How to Slow Climate Change With a Fake Volcano‘.  Anthropogenic Arctic Volcano, is a term I originated and is very relevant.  See my of post of same name, at Arctic News, from Thursday, January 10, 2013 here.