Agency Fighting ‘Climate Change’ Operates 9,516 Vehicles for 11,605 Employees
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Warmist vs. Warmist: Meteorologist Cliff Mass rips Hansen’s paper: ‘Their conclusions are demonstrably false & their characterization of the science & statistics are deceptive at best’
‘But what they are not telling you is that the very warm anomalies we are seeing today would have been nearly as large if global warming had never occurred’
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Meteorologist Cliff Mass slams ‘peer-review’ of Hansen: He was published in…the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…with essentially no peer review’
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Warmist scientist sickened by NASA’s Hansen’s latest claims: ‘The damage to the credibility of my profession is huge’
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Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels Rips Hansen — in Letter to Editor sent to Washington Post
To the Editor,
NASA climate modeller James Hansen introduces his August 5 op-ed (“Climate change is here–and worse than we thought”) by referring to his June 23, 1988 testimony on global warming to a joint House/Senate Committee, stating that he was “too optimistic” at that time. The opposite is true.
At that time, Hansen projected warming based upon two viable emissions scenarios–what he called “Business as Usual”, or his “Scenario A”, and another with emissions reductions (“Scenario B”). The warmings predicted by the two, between then and now, are, respectively, 1.26 and 1.21 degrees Fahrenheit. The observed warming, in his own somewhat controversial climate record, is 0.68 degrees.
Overpredicting warming by roughly 50% (given the obviously large margins of error in this data) means that warming has been much less than he thought.
Patrick J. Michaels
Director, Center for the Study of Science
Cato Institute
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‘Science by press release’: Hansen’s woeful claims about DC’s 95 degree temps shredded: ‘There is little or no correlation between DC summer temps & world temps’
Via MIKE SMITH ENTERPRISES BLOG:
‘In 2008, only 5 days (fewer than average) of 95 degrees temps occurred with world temps warmer than today’s. In 2009, there were 8 days with temperatures about the same as today’s… Scientists with robust results are happy to go through the regular channels to release information. Many times I have commented that the behavior of the pro-catastrophic global warming fringe is not consistent with people who are confident of their position. This is more of the same.’
Despite the science not supporting Hansen’s claims, AP’s Seth Borenstein happily promotes Hansen’s bad claims:
More here.
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Hansen’s ‘science’ shredded: ‘Instead the actual temperatures have been colder than in any of his three scenarios, including C, which assumed falling CO2 levels!
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Climatologist Dr. John Christy: ‘Is Jim Hansen’s Global Temperature Skillful?’
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Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. challenges Hansen: ‘He is actually telling us we do not need to spend the millions of dollars in making climate predictions…’
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New paper finds sea level rise has greatly decelerated over past 10 years: ‘Paper published in Coastal Engineering finds ‘[sea level rise] reduction is even more pronounced during last 5 years’
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