NASA Names Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, gets honorary lunch ticket to Tom’s Restaurant.
NASA has named Gavin A. Schmidt to head the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, a leading Earth climate research laboratory. Currently deputy director of the institute, Schmidt steps into the position left vacant after the retirement of long-time director James E. Hansen and becomes only the third person to hold the post.
“Gavin is a highly respected climate scientist who already also has proven himself as a terrific leader of the GISS team,” said NASA’s Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan. “He is the perfect candidate to continue leading this vital research institute at a critical time for the U.S. and the world.”
Schmidt, an expert in climate modeling, began his career at GISS in 1996. His primary area of research is the simulation of past, present and future climates. He has worked on developing and improving computer models that integrate ocean, atmosphere, and land processes to simulate Earth’s climate, and is particularly interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic data.
“It’s an honor to lead the team of talented scientists at GISS,” he said. “The work being done here has implications for societies across the planet, and I will strive to make that research as valuable as possible.”
Schmidt received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oxford University in 1988 and a doctorate in applied mathematics from University College London in 1994. He came to New York as a 1996 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change Research.
In addition to more than 100 published, peer-reviewed articles, he is the co-author of “Climate Change: Picturing the Science” (W.W. Norton, 2009), a collaboration between climate scientists and photographers. In 2011, he was awarded the American Geophysical Union Climate Communications Prize.
GISS was founded in 1961 as NASA’s theoretical division for work on planetary atmospheres, under the direction of Robert Jastrow, and is today a leading Earth climate research laboratory. Major areas of GISS research include measurements, remote sensing and simulation of Earth’s climate, the forces driving climate change and its impacts on human society, agriculture and ecosystems and continuing work on planetary climates in the solar system and beyond. GISS works closely with partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and with the Earth Institute and School of Engineering at Columbia University.
NASA’s Earth science program monitors the planet’s vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth’s interconnected natural systems with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
For more information about Schmidt’s research and publications, visit: www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt/
Source: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20140609/
In case you were wondering about that honorary lunch ticket to Tom’s Restaurant.
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“It’s an honor to lead the team of talented scientists at GISS,” he said. “The work being done here has implications for societies across the planet, and I will strive to make that research as valuable as possible.”
I didn’t know he was a flat-earther, otherwise he would have said “around the planet”.
Grant says:
June 9, 2014 at 11:41 am
I felt no ill will towards the Gavinator until his truly boorish behavior towards Dr.Spenser at this Schmidt / Spenser interview. It demonstrated that Roy Spenser is a gentleman and that Gavin Schmidt is most certainly not.
Excuse me as I step into the bathroom and hug the white thrown. It makes perfect sense, a shill for EMS, established ‘Real Climate” to confuse science for Al Gore the first CAGW billionaire, student of the man who as head the Goddard organization apparently made a fortune pushing CAGW for the elite. Galvin should absolutely step into the same shoes. He deserves it in many ways! This has all of the markings of a train wreck. He deserves that too. Just thinkin’ Cassey Jones Greatful Dead version http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gratefuldead/caseyjones.html
A False Prophet in front of a False “Monk’s Coffee Shop”.
Of course the scene is in reality “Tom’s Restaurant”
I’d say that James Hansen is the Old Gavin Schmidt,
and GS can look forward to filling that mould of the
half-baked lunatic fringe, where attacking coal power
plants, and criminal damage of railroad property is
deemed “okay – yah”.
Gavin Schmidt is what may be loosely termed as a
“Highland Dancer”, and that aint no racehorse.
Once more we are reminded of what floats to the top of the septic tank. A complete disgrace.
re: “Is Gavin Schmidt honest?” etc.
This new appointment should be viewed as an ideal opportunity, to make timely inquiries and statements, both privately and publicly.
While the appointment is new and fresh (even if obscure to most of the public) there is more of a chance (perhaps) to obtain statements and comments from various people, i.e., will they defend what has gone on to date with Hansen, Schmidt, various NASA offices, RealClimate blog, Gavin’s partners-in-malice such as Michael Mann, CRU-Jones et al.
For those well enough versed in all of the details and history (as I am not), it is a great moment to try to stimulate curious journalism, critical public challenges and institutional responses, etc.
Who knows what interesting or useful comments may emerge if enough probes are attempted with media, NASA, Congress, other scientists, etc.??
But who takes over for Gavin? When it all comes out and higher-ups start emergency hearings and investigations to keep the indignant lynch mobs at bay, the profiteers and their closest minions will need all their possible layers of plausible deniability intact.
¡Ay, caramba!
“RealClimate: Gavin Schmidt is a climate modeller
at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
in New York and is interested in modeling”
Among his RealClimate recommended reading list are …..
Christian Science Monitor, Climatedenial dot org,
deSmogBlog, George Monbiot, SkepticalScience,
Stoat, The Carbon Brief, Columbia Earth Inst.,
and Penn State Inst. Env. to name but a few.
Who will become the new voice of “Real Climate” propaganda “blog”,
or does Schmidt intend to continue full-time comment deletion policing ?
The pages at the so called “Real Climate” website states this at the moment :
“Technical Note: Sorry for any recent performance issues. We are working on it.”
Has this got something to do with Schmidt’s new role ?
He is still listed as #1 “contributor” though with Michael Mann at #2
realclimate dot org index archives 2004 12 contributors
archived for posterity at : https://archive.today/KDXNR
Robert Austin says,
“I felt no ill will towards the Gavinator until his truly boorish behavior towards Dr.Spenser at this Schmidt / Spenser interview. It demonstrated that Roy Spenser is a gentleman and that Gavin Schmidt is most certainly not.”
I think it is more telling than that, Robert. If you are confident in your ideas and your facts, a normal, mature adult is willing and even anxious to defend and promote their ideas. This little, silly, coward of a man couldn’t do it. I don’t want to be extreme in my thoughts, but I have nothing but disdain and mistrust for this weasel. Even if I completely disagreed with Dr. Spencer I ‘d rather spend a year arguing with him than a moment with Schmidt. I have a difficult time expressing my incredulity of a man like that.
At least Hansen was ready and willing to debate his opponents. This is in my view, a complete disaster. I just hope and pray that he’s fired by the next president.
‘Currently deputy director of the institute, Schmidt steps into the position left vacant after the retirement of long-time director James E. Hansen and becomes only the third person to hold the post.’
The post continues to lean to the left. Schmidt is hanging on for dear life; but it is difficult to determine if he is trying to stand it upright or to a more left-leaning posture.
Different job, same Schmidt !!!
I lived here twenty years now too, and that fat ass never goes out. The neighborhood is full of bright eyed college babes (and a few guys). No Gavin has been seen ’round here. No, he is *not* hanging out locally, like that. And his “penthouse” office above Tom’s ALWAYS has it’s lights off after 9PM. That disconnects him completely from Columbia University labs proper, open all night, including holidays. I used to walk home every night for five year between 2AM and 4AM. No, that’s not Columbia University. These are gnats of science, not men.
Gilbert Stork is a real god. He put art into organic synthesis, and after helping invent The Pill, he put Columbia back on the map where actual new methods were forged in creating things out of carbon that really matter:
http://youtu.be/JeHtHFddd0Q
Has quality control at GISS improved since 2008?
http://climateaudit.org/2008/11/12/gavin-schmidt-the-processing-algorithm-worked-fine/
Hmmm …. So Gavin Schmidt is designated as the new Hansen, eh?!
This is the same Gavin Schmidt about whom one might reasonably say: ‘Consistency is not exactly his forté.’
There are a few things that have always puzzled me about Good Ol’ Gav. Back in November 2009, he claimed that the Climategate 1.0 files had been uploaded to RealClimate. This alleged upload was three days before they became public knowledge.
If, in fact, events transpired in at least one of the various ways in which Schmidt subsequently described them, would he not have had the perfect “hockey-stick” from his server log data to present to Andy Revkin, as evidence, when he discussed it with him on Nov. 20, 2009 (even if he did not report this alleged crime to the appropriate authorities)?!
For the record, although about a year later, Schmidt did claim that he had sent such logs to Norfolk’s (slowest and) finest in December 2009, Revkin confirmed to me a few years ago that no logs were ever presented to him:
One other thing that struck me about Good Ol’ Gav is his rather remarkable facility in jumping on his high horse to claim that he did not say what he did when … well … he did! (For details, pls. see: The ineffable meaning of “conflicts” in climate science)
Congratulations, Gavin.
NASA may have given up on leading the “Space Race” but it still leads in “Carbocentrisme”.
I commented on how these warmist folks are basically bat s**t crazy some time ago.
They are doubling down on all fronts, our wallets will be gone. Australia is looking pretty good these days.
Those climate models are paper mills. Even though each new generation and a wealth of model diagnostic literature prove the prior models wrong, the model based papers never have to be retracted. Nice gig while it lasts.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Schmidt happens… 🙁
So Gavin’s journey to the dark side is now complete. What with increased budget concerns and responsibility for the welfare of his minions, he’ll have little time for scepticism. Its a pity really because despite his seemingly unshakable faith in models, I thought he showed occasional glimmers of hope.
Oh and Tamino has a new master.
The man whole broke the Peter Principle … to incompetence and beyond!
You go Gavin.
Gavin Schmidt was one of the authors.
Now what did Dr. Hodren say? Colder winters in the USA as a result of man’s greenhouse gases. What is a sane mane to do?
CORRECTION
What is a sane mane to do?
What is a sane man to do?
Is Gavin a climate scientist?