New Yorker: Early on in the furious battle over the Keystone XL pipeline, a new slogan began to appear at rallies: Keystone XL = Game Over for Climate. That phrase, game over for the climate, originated in a May, 2012, Times Op-Ed, by James Hansen, who was at the time NASAs most prominent climatologist. Hansen has said many times that he was misquoted--he was referring to the full development of the Alberta oil sands, not the pipeline per se. Nonetheless, the equation with Keystone stuck.
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