Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

I do not trust Goddard to put honest information out there as long as James Hansen is involved.

I don't know enough abut HADCRUT to say.

I do not trust Goddard to put honest information out there as long as James Hansen is involved.

I don't know enough abut HADCRUT to say.

James Hansen's former boss, on James Hansen
Posted: January 28, 2009, 4:32 PM by Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon, Climate change, global warming, James Hansen, NASA, Hansen

James Hansen of NASA's GISS has been the single-most influential scientist in the world in promoting the view that global warming represents a catastrophic risk to the planet. His former supervisor at NASA, Dr. John S. Theon, now publicly disagrees with Hansen's work. In the correspondence below from earlier this month, Theon dismisses the validity of Hansen's work, charges that some scientists manipulated climate change data, and formally joined the ranks of the deniers. He expressed his views to the Minority Office at the U.S. Environment and Public Works Committee.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/01/28/james-hansen-s-former-boss-on-james-hansen.aspx

A saint of the left, a hero of the environmentalists, a self-proclaimed martyr to truth and champion of democratic processes, Hansen has an interesting idea of what to do with those -- or at least some of those -- who disagree with him. Conduct an inquisition. Strike back at the heretics.

But let's let him speak for himself.

"Special interests have blocked the transition to our renewable energy future," he wrote in an online piece for World Watch Institute. "Instead of moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil fuel companies choose to spread doubt about global warming, just as tobacco companies discredited the link between smoking and cancer.. .

"CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of the long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature."

In other words, if you exercise your democratic rights to petition your government and speak freely but are also contradicting someone in possession of absolute knowledge -- in this instance, the great, infallible Hansen -- you are to be dragged before the proper authorities and prosecuted, not for some misdemeanor, mind you, but for crimes way, way up there -- high crimes -- and crimes not just against some group of people or the other, but against all of humanity, and for that matter, against nature itself. One shudders to think of what penalties a guilty verdict might lead to.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/34233

Among the many who have accused James Hansen--at least I know enough about him to spell his name right--is his former boss: ...

boss
Definition
An individual that is usually the immediate supervisor of some number of employees and has certain capacities and responsibilities to make decisions. The term itself is not a formal title, and is sometimes used to refer to any higher level employee in a company, including a supervisor, manager, director, or the CEO.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/boss.html

Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing
Thursday, April 23, 2009By Marc Morano
'House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated'
Climate Depot Exclusive - Updated

Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.

According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The "celebrity" witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats' "celebrity" with an unnamed "celebrity" of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

[ Update: 1:55 PM EST: A GOP House source told Climate Depot that the Democrats on the Committee said “absolutely not” to allowing Monckton to appear during today's Gore hearing. The GOP committee “pushed at multiple levels” to bring Monckton in to testify but the Democrats “refused,” according to the GOP source. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was called in to testify after Monckton was rejected by the committee Democrats, according to the Congressional source.]

“The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening.

“Waxman knows there has been no 'global warming' for at least a decade. Waxman knows there has been seven and a half years' global cooling. Waxman knows that, in the words of the UK High Court judge who condemned Gore's mawkish movie as materially, seriously, serially inaccurate, 'the Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view,'” Monckton explained. Monckton has previously testified before the House Committee in March. (See: Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing...US Congress told climate change is not real ) Monckton has also publicly challenged Gore to a debate. (See: Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007 )

A call to the Democratic office of the House Energy and Commerce Committee seeking comment was not immediately returned Thursday night.
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing

Meaning you can't? Another hit and run Walter attack/criticism that he can't back up?

You feel so strongly about it you think your position is less than 10% likely to happen? What a BS artist you are.

The problem for me at this time, is that I don't have enough data to justify betting whether SI will increase or decrease over that time period [i.e., 2001-2011]. I'm confident that if SI increases over that time period, then A-AAGT and AAGT will increase over that time period. On the other hand, if SI continues to decrease over that time period, I'm confident A-AAGT and AAGT will continue to decrease over that time period.

It is a fact that during the specific 90 year period,
1908 to 1998, CAD increased, SI increased, A-AAGT
increased, and AAGT increased. It is also a fact that
during the specific 11 year period, 1998 to 2008,
CAD increased, SI decreased, A-AAGT decreased, and
AAGT decreased. Because of these facts, SI increases
and decreases are likely to be the major causes of
A-AAGT and AAGT increases and decreases,
and CAD increases are likely to be minor, if not
negligible, causes of increases of A-AAGT and AAGT.

CAGT = CENTURY AVERAGE GLOBALTEMPERATURE,1901-2000, in °K = 287.06°K
AAGT= ANNUAL AVERAGE GLOBALTEMPERATURE in °K
A-AAGT = ANOMALIES of AAGT = AAGT - CAGT in °K
AAGT = CAGT + A-AAGT
CAD = CO2 ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY in PPM
SI = SOLAR IRRADIANCE in W/M^2

I am willing to bet that IF SI increases over the next 3 years, THEN A-AAGT and AAGT will increase.

I am willing to bet that IF SI decreases over the next 3 years, THEN A-AAGT and AAGT will decrease.

Since Theon left NASA in 1994. I am unclear how you think he is Hansen's boss?

Theon certainly hasn't had to look at or justify any of Hansen's work since 1994. So to call him Hansen's "boss" seems a stretch. Of course, that ignores the fact that by 2020, Hansen will probably be retired since he will be 79 years old.

http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-s-theon-new-elderly-denier-on.html

You will call it nit-picking again - but according to all sources, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley wasn't Thatcher's science but one of her political advisers. (She wouldn't have been so stupid to name someone with a degree in classics and journalism as her science adviser - she had some better choices.)