Hansen notes that solar brightness has decreased and the effects are “not negligible.” [You can’t expect global temperature to increase at a constant rate because] there’s too much natural variability. There are otehr forcing factors. It’s not only CO2 that’s changed. The sun’s brightness changed, ah decreased slightly over the last 10 years, about 0.1 … Continue reading Hansen admits: Sun important in climate change
“Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a “diversionary tactic” from “deniers” who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world’s best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen.”
The UK industrialized first.
That would be news to the IPCC, which stated in 2007:
“I cannot believe that Secretary Kerry would let his and President Obama’s legacies go down the tar sands drain.”
From his latest diatribe against the Keystone XL.
He’s a “policy flake” and “radically downplays the risk of nuclear power.” Apaprently, Hansen is not a believer in the linear nonthreshold model of cancer risk — so he’s not all bad.
But Hansen is the one who’s been forced to concede error.
“In an interview with Evan Solomon airing Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House, James Hansen defended his position that approving the proposed pipeline would be disastrous for the environment.”
“Ask yourself how long we will tolerate having our highest ranking Canadian officials embarrass internationally by attacking the most courageous of scientists? It is we who are ashamed — of our government.”
Joe Nocera writes in the NYTimes:
“In a post-speech question-and-answer session at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the minister dropped his usual carefully measured tone to decry leading climate-change scientist James Hansen.” Read more at the Globe and Mail.