This came out some days ago, but I never got around to posting it, this corrects my oversight. The description of the TED video reads:
Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate
The video is below:
Hansen again blames individual meteorological events, like heat waves, to CAGW. That’s not science, flat out… it’s not climate.
And if Greenland is losing ice mass at such a rate, why aren’t the oceans rising quickly? I thought the Grace satellite has yet to prove itself accurate at precise mass detection?
I was willing to listen but stopped when I got to the part where he says: “Climate change deniers…”. There is no such thing, the phrase is disingenuous propaganda and he knows it. By intentionally using this phrase his talk becomes apocalyptic ‘entertainment’ akin to the War of the Worlds radio broadcast on Sunday, October 30, 1938, when fake news broadcasts during a music show caused panic by announcing the invasion of the earth by aliens from Mars.
jorgekafkazar says:
March 25, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Great “hat” comments. You did one better[4] than a hat trick.
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Dr. Rasool and Dr. Shneider partly relied on Dr. James Hansen’s Venus programme to predict a coming ice age in 1971. What will climate scientists they think of next?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/173/3992/138
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/19/nasa-scientists-predicted-new-ice-age-1971
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ra00600k.html
May as well get this over with, as I have been wanting to since this thread began:
hansen is old hat. ‘Nuff said.
Here’s one from Mark Twain [I think}
“You take the lies out of him, and he’ll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he’ll disappear”
David Corcoran says:
March 25, 2012 at 3:48 pm
And if Greenland is losing ice mass at such a rate, why aren’t the oceans rising quickly?
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That’s a good question, I have another one: about meltwater. They say, over 200 Gt ice from the ice sheet of Greenland has melted away 2010. Now, dealing with the warmists it is not enough just to think scientifically, no, you have to adopt a criminal investigation approach. If there is a possible murder, a criminal investigator asks first about the dead body, where is it? Exactly like that we should ask a simple question: how was this enormous amount of meltwater gone and nobody saw it? No videos, no photos, nothing. They would have definitely shown us the rivers of meltwater as an evidence of climate change, if there had been any. Which leads to the conclusion, that no significant ice loss in Greenland could have possibly happened and we are dealing with a scientific fraud here.
So Hansen is still claiming that a claim that prior to 1981 a warming of 0.4 C “of past century” was caused by CO2.
Why can’t he just admit he was wrong and go home?
Does Hansen disagree that retreating glaciers indicate “global warming”, does he disagree with the record of when global glacier started to retreat global. Does he imagine such a retreat began due to human emission of CO2? Does he not realize that during Little Ice Age it was cool period during the current interglacial period, and that the slowdown of glacier advance during this period, was when human population was far less than today, people used horses for transportation and killed whales to provide oil to to provide light. A world population of less than 2 billion, no cars, no electricity, sailing boat hauled freight, and not a world in which billions travelers fly per year?
No one, now agrees with his assessment in 1981. Everyone can see future predict he presented to Congress was wrong.
‘Imagine a giant asteroid on collision course with earth…that is the scale of the catastrophe we are facing now….’
I think that says it all.
Love the A-bomb references and the graphics. Fear mongering at its very best!
The sight of Hansen makes me puke!
Abysmally depressing, too long, but gave me insights into the mind of the “environmentalist.” It truly is Not about the science. They truly hate mankind.
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6599
“…..[positions] have led the greens down a dark, litter-strewn, dead-end street where the rubbish bins overflow, the light bulbs have blown, and the stray dogs are very hungry indeed.”
Big hat, no cattle.
It’s interesting to compare Hansen’s “performance” when he’s in a situation that precludes any challenging of his opinions with a situation in which he must deal with those whose minds are more open, far quicker and more perspicacious than his.
For example, readers might want to check out Hansen’s “contributions” to the recent AAAS meeting webcast “When science is not enough”:
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2012/program/plenaries/panel.shtml
This is an abbreviated version of the webcast – and I haven’t yet had an opportunity to watch it again to see what might have been left on the cutting room floor. But my impression at the time was that Hansen was a very uncomfortable fish out of water – and that his performance was far outshone by the other two panelists, Hans Rosling and Olivia Judson.
Graphite says:
March 25, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Big hat, no cattle.
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The cattle is the world population.
Big hat, just prattle.
Green Hats should be made from palm fronds, pine cones, or recycled truck tires.
here:
http://estrip.org/content/users/jenks/0507/IMG11540506.jpg
here:
http://beadcollector.net/openforum/uploads/PineConeHat_016.jpg
and here:
http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/contrib/c4473.jpg
I can really see him at the podium in that tire hat…
He forgot a bit of his own history –
The New Ice-age
“U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,” blares the headline of the July 9, 1971, article, which cautions readers that the world “could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts.”
The scientist was S.I.Rasool, a colleague of Mr. Hansen’s at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The article goes on to say that Mr. Rasool came to his chilling conclusions by resorting in part to a new computer program developed by Mr. Hansen that studied clouds above Venus.
As reported
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/sep/19/inside-the-beltway-69748548/
Mr. Hansen seems to hang heavily on his reading of Ocean Heat Content, and NODC numbers charted by Bob Tisdale in a WUWT post seem quite at odds with that. He seems unready to deal with any serious questions, and ready to assert things on his authority instead. That may work with the TED audience, but it doesn’t with me and judging by the comments, it doesn’t impress a lot of WUWT readers either.
Why does this guy still have a job?? Does he have photos of somebody important hidden away someplace?
Richard Lindzen gave a colloquium speech at Fermilab a few years ago & nearly blew a gasket when he started analyzing the contradictions of Hansen’s positions! Prof. Lindzen went into a bit of detail about the chemical differences between the atmosphere of earth and Venus, where the huge clouds of sulfuric acid amplify the heating.
It was a great speech, but the DOE scientists of Fermilab were not very receptive. Not as many of those folks left at Fermilab after the recent layoffs.
Mostly painful. Like the worst sermon one could imagine…..hours of agony compressed into a bad video. The problem is he has a reputation of bad science…so…where can he go? (answer not necessary). 🙂
I have argued for some time that when a scientist is speaking to the public honesty is of the utmost importance; a lay audience has no way of judging the validity of the facts. One example was the pair of graphs Hansen showed on ice loss according to the GRACE satellite. The ice losses of 200 Giga tons a year for Greenland and 130 Giga tons for the Antarctic seem impressive until you realise that at this rate Greeland’s ice wll last for another 13,500 years and the Antarctic’s for 200,000 years.
Another small point relates to his rhetorical questions “what kind of sea level rise can we look forward to?”. It was as if, deep down, he was welcoming a large sea level rise as confirmation of his prophesies rather than as a disaster to be feared.
defective link above:
http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/contrib/c4473.jpg
it works when pasted in as a url address.
odd.
I have failed to figure out the thought processes of this man but I have worked out why he wears the hat. It covers the five layer foil and insulation faraday cage beenie he wears under it.