Topic: James Hansen

Mark Morano traces the history of environmental alarmism back to the 1960s, citing Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich’s "The Population Bomb" as the original templates for modern scares. He claims that the 1970s global cooling narrative used the same solutions currently proposed for global warming, such as wealth redistribution and the surrender of national sovereignty. Morano asserts that the UN Climate Panel, formed in 1988, operates as a self-interested lobbying organization dependent on maintaining a sense of catastrophe.

Mark Morano explains that in the 1970s, many scientists—including some who later became warming alarmists—were concerned about man-made global cooling caused by aerosols. He argues that Exxon did not have "secret knowledge" of warming but was observing the same speculative theories as the rest of the scientific community. Morano characterizes current lawsuits against oil companies for storm damages as legally baseless attempts to extract money.

The "clathrate gun" hypothesis involves the release of methane hydrates from the Arctic Ocean, a gas over 100 times more powerful than CO2 in the short term. NASA's CARVE project documented methane plumes 150 kilometers wide in 2013, indicating the process has accelerated since 2007. Analysis by Sam Karana suggests this feedback loop could lead to a 4-degree Celsius temperature increase by 2030, a level humans have never survived.