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Title: James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warming
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URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-ha ... -global-warming-071938714.html
Published: Jun 18, 2018
Author: Seth Borenstein
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:50:22 by no gnu taxes
Keywords: None
Views: 1037
Comments: 9

NEW YORK (AP) — James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't.

NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen's predictions given the technology of the time.

Hansen won't say, "I told you so."

"I don't want to be right in that sense," Hansen told The Associated Press, in an interview is his New York penthouse apartment. That's because being right means the world is warming at an unprecedented pace and ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting.

Hansen said what he really wishes happened is "that the warning be heeded and actions be taken."

They weren't. Hansen, now 77, regrets not being "able to make this story clear enough for the public."

Global warming was not what Hansen set out to study when he joined NASA in 1972. The Iowa native studied Venus — a planet with a runaway greenhouse-effect run — when he got interested in Earth's ozone hole. As he created computer simulations, he realized that "this planet was more interesting than Venus." And more important.

In his 1988 study, Hansen and colleagues used three different scenarios for emissions of heat-trapping gases — high, low and medium. Hansen and other scientists concentrated on the middle scenario.

Hansen projected that by 2017, the globe's five-year average temperature would be about 1.85 degrees (1.03 degree Celsius) higher than the 1950 to 1980 NASA-calculated average. NASA's five-year average global temperature ending in 2017 was 1.48 degrees above the 30-year average. (He did not take into account that the sun would be cooling a tad, which would reduce warming nearly two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit, said the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Jeff Severinghaus.)

Hansen also predicted a certain number of days of extreme weather — temperature above 95 degrees, freezing days, and nights when the temperatures that don't drop below 75 — per year for four U.S. cities in the decade of the 2010s.

Hansen's forecast generally underestimated this decade's warming in Washington, overestimated it in Omaha, was about right in New York and mixed in Memphis.

Clara Deser, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said Hansen's global temperature forecast was "incredible" and his extremes for the cities were "astounding" in their accuracy. Berkeley Earth's Zeke Hausfather gives Hansen's predictions a 7 or 8 for accuracy, out of 10; he said Hansen calculated that the climate would respond a bit more to carbon dioxide than scientists now think.

University of Alabama Huntsville's John Christy, a favorite of those who downplay climate change, disagreed. Using mathematical formulas to examine Hansen's projections, he concluded: "Hansen's predictions were wrong as demonstrated by hypothesis testing."

Hansen had testified before Congress on climate change at a fall 1987 hearing that didn't get much attention — likely because it was a cool day, he figured.

So the next hearing was scheduled for the next summer, and the weather added heat to Hansen's words. At 2 p.m., the temperature hit a record high 98 degrees and felt like 102.

It was then and there that Hansen went out on a limb and proclaimed that global warming was already here. Until then most scientists merely warned of future warming.

He left NASA in 2013, devoting more time to what he calls his "anti-government job" of advocacy.

Hansen, still at Columbia University, has been arrested five times for environmental protests. Each time, he hoped to go to trial "to draw attention to the issues" but the cases were dropped. He writes about saving the planet for his grandchildren, including one who is suing the federal government over global warming inaction. His advocacy has been criticized by scientific colleagues, but he makes no apologies.

"If scientists are not allowed to talk about the policy implications of the science, who is going to do that? People with financial interests?" Hansen asked.

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#1. To: All (#0)

I don't want to be right in that sense," Hansen told The Associated Press, in an interview is his New York penthouse apartment.

First of all, this guy is a clown, as are the media sycophants who support him.

Second, while I am sure he made a very nice salary at NASA, how does a retired gubmint worker afford a penthouse apartment in NYC?

no gnu taxes  posted on  2018-06-18   9:53:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening.

That's pretty gutsy, considering that ten years earlier scientists were predicting a new ice age.

misterwhite  posted on  2018-06-18   10:19:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

Such a modest "hero" spreading bullshit.

Hank Rearden  posted on  2018-06-18   10:37:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: no gnu taxes (#1)

Second, while I am sure he made a very nice salary at NASA, how does a retired gubmint worker afford a penthouse apartment in NYC?

He's a well-paid front man for Steyer and Soros and others.

Tons of paid speeches, fawning articles for high-dollar publications, paid personal appearances, consulting, etc.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-06-18   10:42:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has pretty much come true so far, more or less. Three decades later, most climate scientists interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen's predictions given the technology of the time.

Considering that our world has a history of ice ages and warm spells following, few rational people will deny that we could have increased warming for some time to come.

Certainly, our past warm interglacials have been as warm as now, or even warmer. -- And just as certain, these warm periods were NOT caused by human activities.

Thus, attempts to radically change our activities is premature.. To be sure, we should be planning for sea level rise, but trying to stop ice age cycles by radical curtailing human activities is idiotic (the sky is falling!!) nonsense..

tpaine  posted on  2018-06-18   11:17:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Tooconservative (#4)

Tons of paid speeches, fawning articles for high-dollar publications, paid personal appearances, consulting, etc.

I'm quite sure. That's what it's all about anyway.

no gnu taxes  posted on  2018-06-18   11:18:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Hank Rearden (#3)

Such a modest "hero" spreading bullshit.

Well, the "hero" BS is understandable given it's Fake Yahoo "News". Spreading this type of double-barreled manure is what pampered millenials and rich hippies do best.

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-18   13:22:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Tooconservative, no gnu taxes (#4)

He's a well-paid front man for Steyer and Soros and others.

Tons of paid speeches, fawning articles for high-dollar publications, paid personal appearances, consulting, etc.

Yes...and NOT reported. Easy enough when all the major "news" outlets and reporters actually work for...Steyer and Soros, etal Rich Leftists.

The bigger question is, "Who isn't on the Steyer and Soros payroll?" (besides MSM, politicians...Antifa, BLM, tainted law "enforcement", and corrupt Mayors/Academe).

With the usual cover provided by the usual suspect MSM outlets -- also salaried by Steyer and Soros -- the SAME EXACT simultaneous parroted talking points are uttered/written by Leftist Talking Heads on a daily basis (the latest one is "Trump Cultists". Trumpian Forces must also expose this (or else America and West cease to exist.)

Until and unless these usurpers of truth and propagandists are exposed or banned from financing disruptors and chaos, this crap will go on and on.

At least Hungary recognized Soros' goal as a subversive-financing-subversiveness, jettisoned him out of Hungary.

Liberator  posted on  2018-06-18   13:40:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn't.

NASA's top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening.

Not only was Hansen wrong, but global warming has faded from the lexicon, replaced by climate change. Global warming experienced minor difficulties when people were up to their ass in snow and suffering from record low temperatures. The attempt to blame it on global warming was not entirely successful. The term climate change solved everything by being applicable to weather at hot or cold extremes.

In the old days, it was called Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, and it took care of itself. Now it is called climate change and requires gobs of your tax dollars.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-06-18   18:18:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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