Tag Archives: James Hansen

The Gore Effect kicks in, plus ça change …

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach … plus ça same old stuff. Thank goodness somethings never change. For example, the “Gore Effect”, which says that wherever His Nobelity Albert Gore III might hold a Climastravaganza to remind the world of the … 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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Hansen’s Sea Shell Game

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old con game that has been played on the suckers for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is done in various forms, with various objects, under various names—three card monty, the shell game, … Continue reading →

Posted in James Hansen, sea level | Tagged , , , , , , , | 216 Comments

Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Antarctic, GLOC, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

Quote of the Week – Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS, unhinged

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

“The Oceans will begin to boil…” – yes he actually said that, along with some other silly things. Watch this video:

Posted in NASA GISS, Quote of the Week, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , , , | 197 Comments

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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Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is required by law to do. How long will NASA continue … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, James Hansen, Opinion | Tagged , , | 225 Comments

Slipping some “past the goalie” at RC

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Seinfeld fans will remember how proud Kramer was when he thought he had slipped one past the goalie. Well, I’ve managed to slip a few comments onto RealClimate’s discusion of the Times Atlas “Greenland Meltdown” … Continue reading →

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A short anthology of changing climate

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest post by Tony Brown Context is everything, and nowhere more so than in climate history, where a graphic such as this seems to illustrate an alarming uptick in temperatures that has been blamed on modern man and his profligate … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 164 Comments

Keystone XL: Liberal activists plan civil disobedience outside White House

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

By Ryan Maue. Free publicity: Bill McKibben’s Call to Action:  “I want to tell you about an upcoming action — it looks set to turn into the biggest civil disobedience protest in the history of the North American climate movement. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | Tagged , , , | 149 Comments

NASA’s Hansen asked to account for outside activities

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Gavin Schmidt’s time spent on editing realclimate.org during working hours apparently was the trigger for a broader investigation. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org  Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org ATI Law Center Asks Court to Force NASA … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, politics | Tagged , , , , , | 92 Comments

Friday Funny – Hansen’s Horror Scopes

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

The motivation for this cartoon comes from this essay on The Hockey Schtick, which was prompted by a post on David Stockwell’s blog Niche Modeling, which I highly recommend bookmarking.

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , | 60 Comments

Failing to make his case, James Hansen uses children as legal pawns

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

From LiveScience, another reason for NASA to fire Jame Hansen now: Here’s the basis for his actions in a nutshell:

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On ocean heat content, Pinatubo, Hansen, Bulldogs, cherrypicking and all that

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

Self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link), the blogger known as “Tamino” loves to bloviate his views about imagined cherrypicking whenever he thinks we aren’t showing everything we are supposed to, … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, NASA GISS, oceans, vulcanism | Tagged | 79 Comments

Andrew Bolt scores the Quote of the Millennium

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

This is from MTR 1377 radio today. Our regular feature, “Quote of the Week” just doesn’t work here. Neither does decade or century. No, a whole new category all by itself is reserved for this quote from the newly appointed … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, satire | Tagged , , , , | 193 Comments

The IPCC, 1990: “Detection of the Greenhouse Effect in Observations” – at odds with the 1988 Senate testimony of Dr. James Hansen?

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

I’m rather tired still from my trip, and so I don’t have the energy to get into a detailed read and analysis of this document which was posted up on the IPCC website just 14 hours ago. This is the … Continue reading →

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Controversial NASA temperature graphic morphs into garbled mess

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

UPDATE: Repaired – see below What happened to that image? Back in 1999, Dr. James Hansen of NASA penned a report on surface temperatures still located on their servers. However, the critical figure for the report, a GIF image, has … Continue reading →

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Commentary- Hansen Draft Paper: Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

by Dr. Martin Hertzberg As the saying goes: “If all you have in your hand is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail”. It is hopeless to expect that Hansen could possibly analyze data objectively – all he has … Continue reading →

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Hansen gets FOIA’d on ethics issues with NASA

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 19, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, … Continue reading →

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The PAST is Not What it Used to Be (GW Tiger Tale)

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Time machines are a staple of sci-fi. Someone travels back to the past and changes some momentous historical event, expecting his or her heroic action will improve the present and future, usually with disastrous results! … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate data, Climategate, measurement, modeling, NASA GISS | Tagged , , | 87 Comments

NCDC’s Dr. Thomas Peterson: “It’s a knife fight”

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

This is a row screencap from this Twitter page: http://twitter.com/scio11 It comes from the January 13-16th, 2011 Science Online conference held in the Research Triangle Park in Durham. Details at these URL’s http://scienceonline2011.com/ http://scio11.wikispaces.com/ You can also follow us on … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climategate, GHCN | Tagged , , , , , , , | 89 Comments

Jim and Bill’s excellent misadventure

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

This is a web formatted version of the PDF found here on Dr. James Hansen’s Columbia.edu web site. I don’t have much respect left for Dr. Hansen, particularly when he uses the word “deniers” nine times in this interview. The … Continue reading →

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Hansen feels the need to explain why GISS is high in the midst of frigid air

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

I was working on a general report yesterday, but in checking background for it, I discovered this recent missive from Dr. Hansen. I suppose when your agency is the “odd man out”, you feel a need to explain yourself. Note … Continue reading →

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A little known 20 40 year old climate change prediction by Dr. James Hansen – that failed will likely fail badly

Posted on October 22, 2009 by

UPDATE: Thanks to a tip from Willis Eschenbach, there’s some developing news in that story from Dr. James Hansen. The Salon interviewee and book author, Rob Reiss that I quoted, now admits he somehow conflated 40 years with 20 years, … Continue reading →

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