“After Al Gore, James Hansen is probably the man climate skeptics most love to hate” Hate? Nah. Mock? Heck yeah, the old codger’s been fudging the temperature data for decades and really seems to have slipped off his trolly with talk of coal “death trains” and completely synthetic “climate crises”
Unlike Gore, Hansen is an actual scientist, at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (it’s located above the restaurant that used to be featured in Seinfeld). It was Hansen who single-handedly put climate change on the national radar when he testified before Gore’s committee in 1988 during a killer heat wave, saying “. . . the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.”
Nearly a quarter of a century later, Hansen is more deeply immersed in the issue of climate change than ever. He’s still writing scientific papers — a new one, titled “Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice,” which argues that the notable recent increase in climate extremes is no accident, has been submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He’s also come out of the ivory tower to join protests against coal-fired power plants (he was arrested outside the White House) and the Keystone XL pipeline (another arrest, same place). And he’s speaking out wherever and whenever he can about the dangers of climate change, along with our responsibility to do something about it — in a recent TED talk, for example, and in an even more recent interview with The Guardian, in which he declared that human climate change is a “great moral issue” on a par with slavery — an “injustice of one generation to others.”
It was Hansen’s 2008 paper suggesting 350 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the air as the level we should aim for that launched the activist organization 350.org (we’re already approaching 400 ppm, with no appreciable emissions slowdown).
A lefty projecting his hate on the other side.
I’m surprised Lemonick hasn’t drowned from all
that Kool-Aid.
Makes for a good nest egg for retirement.
“Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice”
So, this is a “scientific paper.” I haven’t sen the paper, so I can’t
comment on the content – but we wonder, what would the title be if this was simply an activist editorial filled with the author’s opinions about what he doesn’t like.
Mr. Hansen has certainly been active over the last 25 years – and has compelled me to waste time writing things to fight him off. Since so much liberal media loves him, I don’t get the coverge that he does.
Mr. Hansen will not respond to email from anyone who questions or contradicts him. Journal editors will not publish letters that contradict what he writes.
Chris Horner finally got hold of his Federal declaration of outside income using FOIA that points to extensive outside gifts and prizes, as well as a lot of money that was verified to be given to him that he never declared to his employer, the Federal Government.
This is the MO of this stinking (climate bull) dog.
Said paper is available through links in this piece, if you really want to see it.
I didn’t look at the paper, only his musings that seem to suggest weather and climate are the same thing when they converge to his preconceived notions, but given the favorable reviews by Tom Karl
and Andrew Weaver there seems to be little meaning to my perpetual gousing
From his own Wiki page:
“In 2011, Andrew Weaver responded to accusations of falsifying data on climate change by suing Tim Ball, an outspoken skeptic of the issue, for defamation. The lawsuit accuses Ball of saying that Weaver ‘cheated the Canadian taxpayer by accepting public funding for climate science research although he has little or no knowledge about climate science and is incapable of conducting useful research,” and that Weaver ‘bribed university students with research funds so they would participate in useless computer modeling studies…’”
This makes Tim Ball the target of law suits by Mann and by Weaver – although there are differences between what constitutes “defamation” in Canada and in the US.
This is what happens to ‘deniers’ like Tim Ball, who, as far as I am aware, have never accepted outside income