Tag Archives: Hansen

“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alarmism, Energy, Environment, James Hansen, NASA GISS, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Pot, Kettle, James Hansen, censorship, NASA and EPA

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Readers may recall this oh so terrible squashing of free speech by the White House limiting NASA public employee Dr. James Hansen’s ability to talk to the media. It seems that the issue has been repeated today, but there’s a … Continue reading →

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NASA’s James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

From the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing irresponsible stories like this one: Former Virginia State Climatologist Dr. … Continue reading →

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NASA’s James Hansen’s big cherry pick

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

From NASA:  Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future: Paradise Lost, or Paradise Regained?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Guest post by Paul MacRae In June, a NASA climate study announced that the warm middle Miocene era, about 16 million years ago, had carbon dioxide levels of 400 to 600 parts per million. The coasts of Antarctica were ice-free … Continue reading →

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James Hansen’s climate forecast of 1988: a whopping 150% wrong

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

From their Die kalte Sonne website, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning put up this guest Post by Prof. Jan-Erik Solheim (Oslo) on Hansen’s 1988 forecast, and show that Hansen was and is, way off the mark. h/t to … Continue reading →

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Shocker: The Hansen/GISS team paper that says: “we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases”

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

Note: This will be a top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one – please scroll down. ============================================================ No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It … Continue reading →

Posted in 350.org connect the dots, Aerosols, Al Gore, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Carbon soot, James Hansen, Methane, NASA GISS, Ozone | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 274 Comments

A Blast From The Past: James Hansen on ‘The Global Warming Debate’ from 13 years ago

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

Guest post by Floyd Doughty Some years ago when I was investigating the climate change issue in my spare time, I ran across a short article by James Hansen on the GISS website under “Education Resource Materials”, dated January, 1999. … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s ‘Game Over for the Climate’ op-ed

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

This op-ed appeared in the New York Times today, and since it was written by a government employee, using his NASA title at the end of the article, I consider it a public domain work reproducible here. I see what … Continue reading →

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Hump day hilarity – astronauts rule

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Josh notes that NASA’s Dr. James Hansen gets a medal in Edinburgh this week, and was flying sky-high, but was brought back down to earth by NASA astronauts that performed an unscheduled EVA into the rarefied atmosphere of “climate change”.

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Hansen on skeptics – we are winning

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Though, he still thinks we are all funded by some sort of “machine”. It never occurs to him that he’s fighting a guerrilla war and that most skeptics are self motivated. Update: the UK telegraph has a similar story here … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Hansen tries to tell Slovenia not to build a power plant

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

This really is abuse of Hansen’s position at NASA, what next? Meanwhile China keeps building coal plants, where’s your letter to them Jim? Of course  China would tell Hansen to go suck rocks, and Hansen knows it, so he doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Monckton addresses California Assembly Committee

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

This was a live blog of this event held at the State Capital in committee, meeting room 127. Brevity is due to blogging on my cell phone. Live Blogging Maintenance guy adjusting thermostat down to keep people from keeling over … Continue reading →

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Boiling Oceans and Burning Reputations with James Hansen

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

Guest post by James Padgett If the average person was asked to describe the runaway greenhouse effect, and given a bit of prep time, how would they do it? Most people would type it into their favorite search engine which … Continue reading →

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Hey Hansen! Where’s the Beef !?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

In June 1986, Dr. James Hansen made a prediction to an AP newspaper reporter, which was carried in Oxnard, CA, of  a 2 degree temperature rise by 2006. This was two years before, almost to the day before he and … Continue reading →

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Triangular Fuzzy Numbers and the IPCC

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about “triangular fuzzy numbers” regarding the IPCC and their claims about how the climate system works. The IPCC, along with the climate establishment in general, make what to me is a … Continue reading →

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Jim Hansen’s balance problem of 0.58 watts

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

From NASA Goddard, Jim Hansen reports on his balance problem: Earth’s Energy Budget Remained Out of Balance Despite Unusually Low Solar Activity A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity — not changes in … Continue reading →

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October to December 2011 NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomalies (0-700Meters) Update and Comments

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale SAME INTRODUCTION AS ALWAYS The National Oceanographic Data Center’s (NODC) Ocean Heat Content (OHC) anomaly data for the depths of 0-700 meters are available through the KNMI Climate Explorer Monthly observations webpage. The NODC OHC … Continue reading →

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What in the world is going on with global temperatures?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Multiple indicators show global temperatures headed down this month, and fast. by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow As shown above (see the datapoint in the square box), the UAH AMSU daily temperatures are the coldest for the globe at 600mb … Continue reading →

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Hansen: “Humans have overwhelmed the natural, slow changes that occur on geologic timescales”

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

From NASA Goddard/GISS: same-o, same-o Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes New research into the Earth’s paleoclimate history by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, … Continue reading →

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