Environment & Energy

...but he didn't. Hansen has had the courage to say unpopular things that are today somewhat less unpopular than they used to be but still rankle some of our simultaneously overly imaginative and under imaginative people paying lip service to climate issues.

McKibben, by contrast, being a journalist and as such, not being big on scientific knowledge, has simply chanted the same things over and over while the world burns, being unwilling to risk his popularity.

I'm not a McKibben fan. I don't believe he ever saw a wilderness that he didn't think should be an industrial park.

James Hansen is certainly one of the most publicly recognized climate scientists, justly so, as well an important expositor of intergenerational ethics. He is unafraid of this role, clearly.

I am often thus less than amused to see Hansen worship that does not extend to an understanding of his views.