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| Global Warming: February 18, 2009 | |
Hansen exhibiting 'megalomania' and 'scientific authoritarianism' | |
by Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. 2/15/09 | |
| Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. is the former director of the University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and an associate professor of environmental studies. Excerpt: Here Hansen swerves from scientific authoritarianism to megalomania: The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death [...] James Hansen of NASA has written an op-ed for the Guardian that, more than any other piece of his that I've seen, expresses his political philosophy. In a phrase, that philosophy can be characterized as "scientific authoritarianism." Scientific authoritarianism, as I am using it here, holds that political decisions should be compelled by the political preferences of scientists. [...] Scientific authoritarianism, weak or strong, has no role in climate politics. http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/the-political-philosophy-of-james-hansen-4961 | |
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