According to the KUSI special report page, Dr. Hansen has issued the following statement.
NASA has issued the following statement in response to the KUSI Special Report. This statement is from Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City:
“NASA has not been involved in any manipulation of climate data used in the annual GISS global temperature analysis. The analysis utilizes three independent data sources provided by other agencies. Quality control checks are regularly performed on that data. The analysis methodology as well as updates to the analysis are publicly available on our website. The agency is confident of the quality of this data and stands by previous scientifically based conclusions regarding global temperatures.” (GISS temperature analysis website: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/)
For more on Dr. Hansen, here is a Youtube clip of his recent appearance on the David Letterman show. Apparently Dr. Hansen does “joust with jesters” after all.
Dr. Hansen writes on his website:
…if we, in effect, destroy Creation, passing on to our children, grandchildren, and the unborn a situation out of their control, the contrarians who work to deny and confuse will not be the principal culprits. The contrarians will be remembered as court jesters. There is no point to joust with court jesters. They will always be present. They will continue to entertain even if the Titanic begins to take on water. Their role and consequence is only as a diversion from what is important.
Yet here he is, jousting with the biggest jester of them all.
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Harry (16:14:22) :
This is the fundamental problem with AGW Climate Scientists.
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One is either interested in ‘The Facts’ or ‘The Agenda’.
One cannot be both a scientist and an advocate. Science demands that you “land” where the data sends you.
Advocates, like any salesperson, have predefined landing zones that they steer the conversation to.
This is why in my business a consultant cannot be a salesman.
Mike Ramsey
kadaka (16:01:15) :
NASA, the organization that lost a shuttle crew because they didn’t accurately know the temperature range of an O-ring material. Now trusted to accurately know the temperature range of the planet.
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cheap shot?
Well whoop de doo ! we have it from the Oracle; Dr Hansen himself. The Winters aren’t cold enough to kill the Pine Bark Beetle.
I’ll be right back with a fix for that problem Dr Hansen.
And Letterman simply demonstrates what a total buffoon he is.
I can’t wait to see all this wonderful green replacement energy that we have to move to anyway. If environmentalists think that industry screws up the environment now, with all their structures; wait till those evil oil structures are all replaced by those veritable Rembrandt creations of the green energy revolution; they’ll just take up 1000 times as much space as those oil messes; so a lot more people will get to admire their beauty.
Letterman should be “forced” to watch all the segment video’s of:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/14/john-colemans-hourlong-news-special-global-warming-the-other-side-now-online-all-five-parts-here/
It might help ease his mind and it wouldn’t hurt if the other “mindless sheep” of the “AGW Religon” followers took the time to watch it also.
Too bad Letterman didn’t ask him about the fence. err… the fence that keeps us all from falling off when we get too close to the edge of the earth.
this is the same NASA that failed to find its own Y2K issue in their temperature database, yes? the guys who needed macyntyre to point it out to them despite the fact that they wouldn’t give him their data?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/200805/messiahs-evil-part-three
Hansen is simply a LIAR!!
Adjusting for UHI by averaging the temperatures of 2 locations that may not even be in the same time zone and are probably both equivalent to urban is Al Gore’s dream!!
The dead pine trees don’t burn any more than live ones do. Sometimes the needles and fine branches burn off dead (or live pine) but wood above 7.5cm in diameter is not normally considered to be fuel for forest fires. For the most part the dead trees slowly decompose which means that they are eaten by fungi, bacteria and insects. This is the normal fate of almost all wood in the forest and it does very little to contribute to a spike in CO2. Beware of con men who want to generate “bioenergy” from the trees to save us from the CO2 the dead trees would give off slowly by burning them up quickly. Every huckster in town has their finger in the AGW pie.
this is the same NASA , that gives us the satellite data we love to argue about, and: mars rovers, the “explorers” still sending back data, space probes, hubble, etc, etc, etc.
lets not burn ALL of them at the stake.
There’s a great snippet in the Hansen Y2K e-mail FOIA dump appropriate here.
Andy Revkin (former NYTimes vaunted enviro reporter) writes to Jim-bo Hansen on 8-23-07 (paraphrasing):
“For the first time, I went to surfacestations.org, and it is really quite amazing. If our (USHCN) stations are really that sloppy, how bad must it be in Mongolia?”
There’s no record in the FOIA e-mails that Jim-bo ever answered the question.
Point being: even Andy Revkin could see at a glance that the US instrumental temp record is junk (BTW, why did it take him so long to come to surfacestations.org?)
No amount of “adjusting, massaging, correcting, extrapolating, etc.” can make a silk purse out of this sow’s-ear of worthless data.
Steve McI merely pointed out that, in addition to the offal nature of the raw data, there was evidence of an additional error at Y2K dealing with different data sets.
NASA-GISS and NOAA have both “adjusted” these so-called data in ways to suppress old warmth (1930s) and elevate modern warmth (wrong sign for urban-heat-island corrections) for political purposes.
These are en-“Hansen”-ments of the temp record.
NOT funny. More like criminal fraud, executed with unwitting taxpayer support.
“No, the accusation is more venomous than that: Human-caused global warming is not an error, it is a hoax. It is an intentional fraud, a worldwide conspiracy.
As San Diego weatherman John Coleman wrote in a November 2007 opinion piece, “Global Warming is a nonevent, a manufactured crisis and a total scam.” The climate scientists are liars and con men who have no qualms about faking data if it will help assure them funding and continued research grants. It’s all about the money. (By this logic, doctors are secretly doing their best to make the public sick, thus ensuring a continued supply of patients and income.)”
Meteorologists as Climate Change Deniers?
http://news.discovery.com/earth/meteorologists-as-climate-change-deniers.html
Well, the way I read his press release I can see it going either of two ways.
1) Toss NCDC under the bus: Hey, THEY make the data, not me.
(BTW, the “three sources” are NCDC for GHCN, NCDC for USHCN, SCAR for Antarctica. So he’s really saying “For anything other than Antarctica, its NCDC, go ask Peterson”.)
or…
2) They are doing a “mutt and jeff” where Hansen says “Not me, see them” and then NCDC says “not us, we just preen the data, see them”. Each giving half the dose of poison, neither killing the truth…
Gerard, it’s not up to the opponents to “have proof”. You cannot prove a negative. It is up to the proponnents of AGW to show some evidence, ANY evidence, which can be looked at by the “opponents”.
This they steadfastly refuse to do, because they can’t, because there isn’t any.
BTW It is not evidence to say: “It can’t be anything else, therefore it must be CO2”. Thjis is an argument of ignorance. Just because the proponnets of AGW cannot think of any other cause, doesn’t mean such causes do not exist, just that these people are ignorant and admitting it.
Let’s face it, water vapour behavior in the atmosphere is not modelled, and is poorly understood. The planet cools by radiation AND convection. And, it is not GHGs that keep the planet warm, it is the ratio of the mass of the atmosphere to the mass of the planet; that, and laws of thermodynamics.
Is it NOAA/NCDC that produces these? Never really understood the requirement to go back and “adjust” the historic figures, and this is not the first time.
http://www.rockyhigh66.org/stuff/USHCN_revisions_wisconsin.htm
http://www.rockyhigh66.org/stuff/USHCN_revisions.htm
found them over at the ChiefIO, http://chiefio.wordpress.com/
He’s got a good handle on how the thermometers move about.
Dr H makes the hackneyed defence of appeal to authority. In my book that’s just a man, older than his time, muttering to himself. He is the authority! With power comes responsibility. With responsibility, if things turn out badly, comes guilt.
I’m reminded of the words of Alec Guiness in the film “Bridge Over the River Kwai”
“What Have I Done?”
Sir, you have sown a seed that germinated, grew and became a Tempest that now threatens the life-style of those that you have striven to protect.
I feel sorry for you.
I don’t feel sorry for your less-deserving colleagues!
Herr Hansen, cold blooded computer game player!
“The planet cools by radiation AND convection. And, it is not GHGs that keep the planet warm, it is the ratio of the mass of the atmosphere to the mass of the planet; that, and laws of thermodynamics.”
someone suggested that the moon acts on the atmosphere just like the ocean tides causing it to be thicker in some areas and thinner in others. It’s constantly changing.
Does anyone have any reports on this effect??
David (15:49:23) :
Dang Dave you beat me to it 😀
Then again… is omitting data (i.e. 5,000 thermometers or so) technically tampering with it? It ain’t tampering if you don’t use it right?
Very much like the sexual relations claim.
Can you be a scientist and still be a dunce?
The good ol’ nit pick blaming game. If only we all were seven again.
You mean, the weather and climate anywhere has been under human control in the past? When was this??
Until Hansen fully complies with FOI requests, he has no credibility whatsoever. Nada, Nyet, None!
He really should be tried for fraud and thrown in the slammer.
All copies of Part 4 of John Coleman’s video “Global Warming – The Other Side” have been hacked and now contain a virus, including the one on this site.
I am making this post as a warning. My computer crashed on Part 4 here, on this site, and I checked three other sites with the same results.
That’s all I know.
[ I think it is your computer that is having issues. Watched part 4 fine. Please don’t thread bomb. -mod ]