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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MartinJudge (12:38:17) :
John Finn
Sorry, I owe you a beer!
I would buy it you in Bolivia, La Paz/Alto – but I don’t know if it would be cold or warm.
Martin
I’ve see some of your letters in the Cov Telegraph. Some time ago I asked Colin.J (at CU) if he had your email address – he didn’t.
You are correct – you owe me a beer. In fact you owe me several since we in the programming teams carried you and your technician colleagues for several years. I’ve had to take early retirement due to the enormous stress.
I’ll give you my email address if you’re interested and we can start up a local sceptic movement. Though you should be warned I’m more of a ‘lukewarmer’ than a die-hard sceptic.
Apologies to other blog readers for this post.
‘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?’
This is the biggest misconception among the AGW folks. And I’m truly and utterly sorry but it is you, still, it always was, you who had something to prove.
So prove you’re hypothesis already, lest you’re the common idi*t.
The rigors of scientific discipline demand ,inter alia,that theories or hypotheses imply the sort of evidence that would prove them wrong.Predictions based on the theory are tested against the facts.If something happens that should not have,and vice versa,the theory is discredited.The chief AGW proponents lament that they cannot explain the lack of warming.Ergo the AGW theory has been disproved.End of story;game over;The AGW alarmists lose.Interestingly enough,the widespread freezing conditions have been touted as evidence of global warming.The reactions of MSM are conspicuous by their absence.BTW the term “skeptic” is defined as one who does not accept any proposition without rational analysis
@Alexander (03:24:08) :
Tiritea is a mispelling of Turitea, a minor matter though. The wind is so strong that the 115m Vestas at Tararua 3 have been falling to bits. Everyone in Palmerston North knows. All they have to do is look at the hills behind the city to see that often a third are not working and blades have been falling off. Wind as a reliable source of energy is a joke.
http://www.palmerston-north.info
has very extensive links buried in its many posts amplifying all this. I now live in Sydney and do my best to help my friends who are the victims of this environmental outrage. Last year I had the pleasure of telling the Environment Court judge presiding over the Turitea wind farm call-in where she could stick the turbines she so clearly favours. The Ministry of Truth in New Zealand certainly believes in the slogan “Ignorance is strength” Fortunately people are waking up over AGW and the wind farms being touted to stop this non problem.
M. Simon
Thank you for the links, especially interesting was the link to http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/darwin-expelled-and-religious-science/
I have not had the time to analyze the rest of your links, I will however look them over.
The concept of how DNA has evolved to man is not clear. The differences between man and our closest evolutionary relative has varied from !% difference to 3% difference depending on the paper you are reading. Also these percentages are based on DNA hybridization where small bits of human DNA are split into single strands and allowed to re-form double strands (duplex) with chimp DNA that were selected because of their similarities. This is not a direct comparison of Human DNA and Chimp DNA.
This material is however, off topic for this discussion thread. Perhaps we could meet over on the above mentioned thread. I would challenge you to be as skeptical of these type of claims frequently a little truth is mixed in with a lot of supposition and imagination. Thanks again.
John Finn
Local Sceptic Group- Good idea! I wouldn’t regard myself as a die-hard: I am mostly annoyed by the misinformation that is being fed to the public. I’ll contact you through Colin.
Again, apologies to other blog readers for this post.
its good and all to post about the displeasure that everyone is upset about activist scientists but it is time to start emailing our senators and congressmen about what is going on and demand an investigation. of course this will fall on deaf ears espeically if you are in markey and waxman’s district but it is still worth a try. Plus i know this is not on topic but another crack in the agw theory was produced in the times in that the whole basis of disspearing himalayan glaciers was based on one indian scientist who has no background in glacial studies. the ipcc accepted it anyway. here is the link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
Martin Judge (03:41:28) : Michael Smith claimed in the Coleman programme that GISS no longer used any Bolivian data in their global temperature ananlysis. The GISS list of the 1500+ stations used to complete its global temperature record still includes the Bolivian La Paz/Alto site in its station list.
Data for this station ends in 1990. Does this mean that GISS includes stations amongst its 1500+ acitve stations which actually no longer supply any data?
Stations are in the station inventory (i.e. list) if they were EVER used. The data, however, stop in 1990 in Bolivia. So real cold Bolivian thermoemters are used to calculate the baseline. These are then compared with “fill in homogenized” data from “elsewhere” for the anomaly map creation. But hey, they ARE using the Boliva Stations… just in the past… for the baseline…..
So yes, you will find all stations used at any point in time in the station inventory, station lists, on their nice little maps showing theromometers all over the world….
They just don’t bother to tell you that 90% of them don’t have any data newer than about 1990.
If GISS is citing stations in its 1500+ list of used stations which are no longer supplying data this would mean that true number of stations used to complete its global temperature record is even less than Smith has argued.
GHCN has 1500 (ish) now. Those records shorter than 20 years get tossed out in step 2 of GIStemp, so the actual number “used” at present in GIStemp (prior to the Nov 2009 code change that I’ve not yet tested) is actually 1176 last time I measured it.
They have added USHCN.v2 in that November code change, so that number ought to be higher now. However, USHCN.v2 has been “enhanced” with more “adjustements” that show a greater warming trend when compared with the prior records…
Quote: robert (09:14:52) :
“its good and all to post about the displeasure that everyone is upset about activist scientists but it is time to start emailing our senators and congressmen about what is going on and demand an investigation.”
I agree and suggest a simple message: “STOP USING SCIENCE FOR PROPAGANDA OR STOP USING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR SCIENCE !”
That’s how it is,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA PI for Apollo
Theo Goodwin (19:08:15) :
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.
Next time, before hollering that the sky is falling, consider that perhaps your computer is having a problem. If all you know is that you crashed, that that is ALL you know. To detect malware needs a malware tool of some sort or explicit symptoms characteristic of the specific malware. “Crash” just means nothing.
Yes, I just downloaded and ran Part 4 again just fine. No problem at all.
Mike Ramsey (15:57:24) : Is Dr. Hansen denying the accuracy of the charges made in John Coleman’s part 4? Or is he asserting that those actions don’t constitute manipulation of climate data?
He is saying, IMHO, “Hey, I just use the data, I don’t make it.”
This is a bit misleading in that he accepts the data; but he dodges that with a hand wave about QA checking by some unnamed somebody.
He’s also, I suspect, taking the position that his code does perfect things, so all those intermediate files it produces are either “not data” or “not manipulated”.
Maybe it depends on the meaning of the word “is”….
Actually, closer than you think. “remove anomalous station data” or “delete the cold records”. “remove uncharacteristic altitudes” or “delete the mountains” “reference station method” or “fill in with fiction from 1000 km away”. “UHI correction” or “wrong way 1.4c at Pisa” and “Diego Gardcia tarmace spread out to sea”. The list goes on…
“Climate mafia fails to steal kids’ lunch money. Sixty year reign of terror coming to an end…”
We still love Dave, and anxiously await his booking of Robert Napier and Jenny Anniston doing a scene from “Prison Break – The Union Mandate.”