James Hansen is the Doctor Oz of climate change. Dude will release study after study before they hit peer review. He's a god damn charlatan.
https://theconversation.com/study-predicts-multi-meter-sea-l...
https://theconversation.com/study-predicts-multi-meter-sea-l...
Your mashable link is a summary of a piece from Glover Park Group, in their own words they turn 'strategies into outcomes', so they seem to be a firm that gets paid to shape public opinion. For that reason alone we should dismiss the messenger.
While your 'the conversation.com' link seems broken, but searching on their site for Hansen returns a first result that is critical of carbon tax programs, seemingly favoring emissions trading. Yet, emissions trading is largely seen as benefiting banks to give them a new financial instrument to trade while not actually reducing carbon emissions. So, I'm left somewhat skeptical about conclusions coming from that site as well.
What I'd rather see is a critique of Hansen's papers coming from the scientific community. I would give that an honest read and open consideration.
https://judithcurry.com/2015/07/26/hansens-backfire/
Lol. Don't read the comments, while i find judith to be above board, many of her fans are definitely rabid troglodytes.
Do you have an example of where his research is wrong or his conclusions were overly pessimistic?
- that there is anyone lurking on HN who is able to argue on this topic as authoritatively as James Hansen and
- that such a person would be willing to educate you here.
You might try
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+james+hansen+wrong%3F
or
When it does speak to the science (the first result refutes a 1988 paper), it seems a quick validation shows that his predications were not correct in 2010 when the article was written, but his prediction is inline with current temperatures reported.
So, yeh, I did look into this already, and haven't found a good critique. So, rather than blindly repeat claims that Hansen is wrong or an alarmist, I urge you to critically read the topic before spreading others lies further.