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.
Chloro Phil (14:30:16) :
“I don’t know anything about it but we’re doomed”. Is Letterman trying to drive down the price of beach front property…
He is driving down his ratings, that’s for sure. I used to love him. I would stay up way past my bed time to watch him. I don’t recognize what he is now. He’s sooo political now that he has creepy James Hansen on the show.
I remember he used to make jokes about people like James Hansen.
Maybe his heart operation changed him.
evanmjones (22:38:12) :
Dr. Hansen has responded by saying “we have not manipulated anything”
What counts for manipulation at he the desk of a mad scientist may not be the same as what counts for manipulation in the rest of the world.
Gerard (14:11:43) :
Are the opponents of AGW just making noise or do they have proof?
Look out the window.
Cheap Shot #3
Like the Martian lander, Hansen is augering in. “Metric? We used feet!”
photon without a Higgs (23:05:53) :
Gerard (14:11:43) :
Are the opponents of AGW just making noise or do they have proof?
Look out the window.
I have just looked out my window and it is 34 degrees celcius and last week it was 43C. I know this just weather, afterall it is summer downunder
cheers Gerard
[snip – funny but too far into outer field for this topic]
Mike D. (23:11:26) :
Cheap Shot #3
Like the Martian lander, Hansen is augering in. “Metric? We used feet!”
Now, you may call that a cheap shot, but let me say that the situation you are talking about with the lander is one reason I am terrified of NASA doing climate engineering. Calculation in liters, application in gallons. Bam!! Popsicles.
@ur momisugly kadaka (19:38:16) :
The guy with piece of rubber and a glass of water, that was the great Richard Feynman who said in the Challenger report, “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled”.
Wich is also very much true about AGW.
[snip – funny but too far into outer field for this topic]
Rats. Oh well, now I know where the line is. 🙂
The more Letterman talks the more he reveals how stupid he is.
Carbon Dioxide (14:49:34) :
Remember the inexplicable two minutes of silence shortly after Apollo 11’s lunar landing?
They had just spent time battling against the Moons escape velocity of 6,000 miles per hour and maneuvered the craft to a safe landing point.
Are you surprised they were speechless for a short time?
Even if they weren’t, NASA would have been mindful that kiddies might be watching and deemed “HOLY F#@ur momisugly%” as an inappropriate mission statement.
A “non-denial denial.” (Woodward and Bernstein, in “All the President’s Men”)
“Gerard (23:29:32) :
photon without a Higgs (23:05:53) :
Gerard (14:11:43) :
Are the opponents of AGW just making noise or do they have proof?
Look out the window.
I have just looked out my window and it is 34 degrees celcius and last week it was 43C. I know this just weather, afterall it is summer downunder
cheers Gerard”
I’ve just done the same. 24c, inner west, Sydney, Australia. I am told it is summer here…well, it’s suposed to be anyway.
rbateman
The comment; “there is a clear separation of church & state in the Constitution” is incorrect. There is no such delineation within the Constitution. It is something you have accepted on faith the same as AGW is accepted on faith by its proponents. AGW individuals “know” man has to be responsible therefore they will cook the books to prove it.
The comment; “using office to promote dogma is not allowed.” This is also not true for that is exactly what AGW is doing by preaching their dogma. God help anyone who dares disagree with them.
I find it very interesting that many of the same individuals that are so skeptical of AGW, swallow other dogma without blinking an eye. If the AGW scientist are so corrupt how can we be sure of any of the “soft” sciences are any better. I know that the same tactics used by the AGW to deny access to peer review publications have been used to deny Evolution skeptics publication and even tenure; again it is not about the science it is about dogma. In fact that is probably where the AGW scientist got the idea to stifle debate.
evanmjones (22:38:12) :
Well, actually it is when he’s knows that he won’t be challenged and that the audience and host will enthusiastically agree with anything he says.
….’NASA has not been involved in any manipulation of climate data used in the annual GISS global temperature analysis’.
Q1. Are there people working at GISS that are not employed by NASA?
Q2. Is the annual analysis is calculated from the monthly runs?
Sean Peake (14:30:21) :
What he really meant was: “NASA has not not been involved in any manipulation of climate data used in the annual GISS global temperature analysis.” I imagine NASA’s QC checks are as good as New Scientists’ re:glacial melting. It only took it ten years for admit it was wrong.
That is so wrong I don’t even know where to start.
Why only 18,000 years ago Chicago was under a glacier. Heh.
* Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802). Thomas Jefferson
http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/qjeffson.htm
Now it is true under original Constitutional doctrine States were free to establish Religion (not to mention slavery) that ended when the protections of the Bill of Rights were extended to cover States as well. If I recall my history correctly we had a war to settle the issue not to mention most recently a Civil Rights movement and also a Right To Keep And Bear Arms movement. Both of them (in the main) successful.
@Gerard (20:56:52) :
I too am involved in a long running battle against a monster wind farm right inside our city boundary. There is plenty of info on this website, which might be useful to you,
http://www.palmerston-north.info
If the AGW scientist are so corrupt how can we be sure of any of the “soft” sciences are any better. I know that the same tactics used by the AGW to deny access to peer review publications have been used to deny Evolution skeptics publication and even tenure; again it is not about the science it is about dogma.
Feynman actually wrote a piece about the corruption of the soft sciences:
Cargo Cult Science
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
And here are a couple of good links on evolution:
Darwin, “Expelled”, and Religious Science
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/darwin-expelled-and-religious-science/
and near the very bottom of this thread:
http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2009/09/13/robert-stacy-mccain-is-a-lousy-racist-and-a-terrible-bigot-not/
Evolution explains how man came into being. The DNA record is pretty clear.
Link here to a video and a couple of books about the DNA record:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-darwin-never-knew.html
What we don’t know is how it all got started. What came before DNA or more correctly DNA as we know it today. There simply was not enough time (if we have the probabilities correct) for life to evolve on Earth from a chemical soup. The conservativelesbian link above explains it.
There is a LOT of shoddy stuff going on in science. The only way to fix it is the public conversation that is relatively new (probably less than a decade where the numbers are sufficient – early days yet). Let every one have their say no matter how foolish. In time the truth will out.
Watts Up With That is one of the truly shining lights in the new realm of public science. And we have Climate Audit to thank. I remember when Anthony got interested in Stevenson Screens there. Which lead to the founding of Surface Stations and this blog. I remember (it is in the record and you can go look) discussing the science with Mosher, Watts, McIntyre and the rest of the gang. It was all bright shinny and new. And we had no idea what would come of it. It was just an effort to do things right.
And so here we are.
But what will the nerds have as their excuse?
The politicians paid me to say that.
Nasa have been known to manipulate images and go to radio silence or use code words in verbal comunications with astronauts.
Remember the inexplicable two minutes of silence shortly after Apollo 11’s lunar landing?
http://www.unisci.com/stories/20021/0115024.htm
Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long — give or take a millimeter.
He’ll employ the telescope, a laser beam and reflectors left by several lunar missions in a technique known as laser ranging to provide the most exacting measure yet of the Earth’s distance from the moon.
and
He will use the 3.5-meter telescope at Apache Point, near Sunspot, N.M., owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium of which the UW is a member. He will attach a laser that generates an average power of 2 watts, but that will jump to a peak power of a gigawatt (1 billion watts) long enough to generate a 1-inch “bullet” of light aimed through the telescope at the lunar surface. The distance is calculated by measuring the light pulse’s round-trip travel time and multiplying that figure by the speed of light.
Each laser bullet will be aimed at one of five retroreflectors, banks of 100 to 300 special prisms that reflect a beam of light back to its point of origin. The retroreflectors, each about the size of a suitcase, were left behind by three Apollo missions (including Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon) and two unmanned Soviet missions.
“You pick which retroreflector you want to aim at, then you focus the beam as tightly as you can. But even then, the atmosphere distorts the beam so that when it hits the moon it’s 2 kilometers in diameter,” Murphy said.
Was the first lunar landing faked? It is possible I suppose. But then you have to explain the laser reflectors left on the moon. How do you fake that?
Theo Goodwin (19:08:15) :
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 have the video links up on two sites and have received no such reports.
In addition I just checked by opening the page and starting the video and have seen no virus reports from:
Malwarebytes anti-Malware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and the free version of AVG (which is used here). Yeah. Belts and suspenders.
Dr. Hansen did not say anything about the main point which is the elimination of more than 4000 readings.
We must then assume that this is true and should ask for an explanation.
[it all passed. I just had to give a second look ~ ctm]