Jim Hansen - 20 Years of Climate Concerns

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Dr. James Hansen, a veteran NASA climate expert, has been both lauded and criticized for moving beyond studying global warming to pressing lawmakers and the public to end unfettered coal burning and build a nonpolluting energy system. I interviewed him 6.21.08 for a New York Times story and post and video on my Dot Earth blog.
More at nytimes.com/dotearth and nytimes.com/climate.
Dr. Hansen's personal Web site is: columbia.edu/~jeh1.

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1951 to 1980. Using ... ( 6 months ago by OmniSurveyor)

1951 to 1980. Using a 25 year period as the model of what the earth's temperature should be sounds like B.S. to me.

The fact that folks ... ( 6 months ago by lumajs)

The fact that folks like Hansen are listened to prove that we don't really live in a scientific society.
Exactly 20 years ago, he predicted that the doom was approaching and between 1988 and 2008, the Earth would heat up by 1 °C or so. The warming was much closer to 0 than his prediction and May 2008 was cooler than May 1988 but instead of accepting that his forecasts schemes are simply wrong, many politicians and others listen to this pseudoscientist more than they did 20 years ago.

Funny 30+years ago ... ( 6 months ago by bluesdrummer715)

Funny 30+years ago this guy claimed for years we were heading into another ice age! Scientist that get political and convince backers with millions to invest, have no credibility in my book. This sham science is nothing more than making billions selling the so called carbon credit. Why isn't this message voiced to Asia, India, Russia, who pollute so much more than we do. Look up the top 5 cities with the most pollution! They're all in China!

this guy wears ... ( 6 months ago by DennyMclain2008)

this guy wears footie pajamas.

The idiots who deny ... ( 6 months ago by Tonyrcan)

The idiots who deny what Hansen says are ostriches with their heads in the sand. The science is in, the empirical data is in (who misses it?) what the &*&*&*(&*. Sham science ?
Fly over the Greenland, witness the advance of deserts, the climate changes (not to be confused with seasons)
These numb nuts will lead us like the Judas goats in abattoirs to our death.

I strongly agree ... ( 6 months ago by thisrealityhere)

I strongly agree with you Tony. All this ruckus about lowering gas prices is making me sick to my stomach. We're already spotting funnel clouds in Toronto. When are people gonna wake up and see the big picture.

Of course since you ... ( 6 months ago by wilbert1755)

Of course since you have seen it all on TV it must be true? he is a Self appointed Climate expert .

he is a self ... ( 6 months ago by wilbert1755)

he is a self appointed Climate expert.

A self appointed ... ( 6 months ago by wilbert1755)

A self appointed climate expert.

That should have ... ( 6 months ago by OmniSurveyor)

That should have been a 30 year period. it's still B.S.

Jim Hansen is THE ... ( 6 months ago by human1554215465)

Jim Hansen is THE hero trying to awake human to stand to save the world, but rich don't care about saving the world, they just want to continue watching superhero movies and driving cars. Jim Hansen is not corrupted, he thinks in the interests of the most people rather than the few. People agree with science if it offers new opportunities, when it opens doors, but they disagree with science when it advices to close doors. People just don't listen, so we know how it all ends. Bye civilization.

Here are movies ... ( 6 months ago by magnusea)

Here are movies with climate scientists and full of good science:
magnusorerar blogspot
com/2007/03/magnificent-global-warming-swindfe
html (Replace spaces and new lines with dots)
Hansen ingnore China, India and southern Asia as CO2 emittors, but focus om US, UK and Germany. Does he have an anti-western discourse?

@magnusea - Don't ... ( 6 months ago by human1554215465)

@magnusea - Don't be unfair. If you want to be fair, you should focus on the Co2 emission per capita. If all human on earth have the emission per capita like a Chinese or an Indian do, the world is maybe saved. If all human have the emission per capita like American do the world is doomed. - The western world is the first culprit for all this mess, not the poor Chinese and Indian. Why, American, in all your movies you want to save the world? In reality, it looks like the opposite.

Self appointed ... ( 6 months ago by forestdragon11)

Self appointed climate expert? Some evidence for that, please. He seems to have plenty of credentials, from where I'm standing.
As far as climate change, I am absolutely on board with Hansen. I've only been alive about 20 years, but I don't remember this many warm seasons 10 years ago. What I don't get is how these 50, 60, 70-something year old politicians are missing it.

"God does not play ... ( 5 months ago by steamgeek)

"God does not play dice with the universe" was an Einstein original.
It will be good to look back 10 years form now, and revisit NASA funding priorities or HR "issues".

No, he's just ... ( 4 days ago by HerHighness73)

No, he's just addressing the countries with whom we, the US, can work closely on this in the immediate future.
It is hard to ask developing countries to cut emissions without threatening development.

This charlatan, ... ( 4 days ago by AriesLudzik)

This charlatan, Hansen, should be sued for professional malpractice - last month he & his GISS announced that October 2008 was the hottest October on record. Turns out the reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
He is a fraud and has committed massive errors like this many times. His lies are legion !

HerHighness73: "It ... ( 3 days ago by magnusea)

HerHighness73: "It is hard to ask developing countries to cut emissions without threatening development."
China is the major CO2 contributor now, and the emission numbers in China and India with 2.5 billion people soars. US has recent years reduced CO2 emission. Now the financial crisis reduce carbon emissions too (this economical crisis will be heavily boosted by cap-and-trade).
Al Gore may be financed by India and China, analysists say. Gore's founding is secret.
This is a hoax.

Array ( 3 days ago by magnusea)

human1554215465.
The link is to a Nature blog, and climotology professor Hans von Storch and biology professor Dennis Bray's information about their research, as well as link to the paper.
tinyurl com
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