I haven't been keeping up. This is the recently released 2007 data from the DOE.
Posted on 03/02/2009 7:42:20 AM PST by angkor
Dr. James Hansen continues to draw fire for global warming claims
Change is coming to Washington, D.C. tomorrow -- or, at least, more warnings of climate change. On March 2, D.C. will be the site of a snowstorm and the largest public protest of global warming in history. Irony aside, the protest might also help usher in the public unraveling of NASA’s chief climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen.
Hansen, best known for his alarming testimonies on climate change, has drawn fresh criticism from colleagues and lawmakers alike after endorsing tomorrow’s Capitol Climate Action protest. Calling for “mass civil disobedience,” the protest aims to draw attention to global warming and remove all coal-burning power plants from America.
In an article with FOXNews, one of Hansen’s former supervisors, Dr. John Theon, remarked of Hansen’s involvement: "Oh my goodness. I'm not surprised. The fact that Jim Hansen has gone off the deep end here is sad because he's a good fellow." Theon is well-known in the scientific community for questioning Hansen’s integrity, claiming that the man abused his position and violated NASA’s position on climate forecasting.
Hansen has also been the target of several notable global warming skeptics, including “Red Hot Lies” author Chris Horner: “He's providing ample cause to question his employment on the taxpayer dime,” Horner told FOXNews.com.
“He's clearly abused his platform provided to him by the taxpayer, principally by the way he’s been exposed of manipulating and revising data with the strange coincidence of him always found on the side of exaggerating the warming.”
Horner charges Hansen with falsifying critical temperature data in 2001 and 2007 to stoke public fears that dramatic climate change was coming. "He's creating an upward slope that really wasn't there,” Horner said. “At some point you have to say these aren't mistakes.”
Hansen, however, continues to win awards and accolades. Most recently, he was awarded the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the American Meteorological Society’s highest honor. Hansen also toured with Al Gore when promoting Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth. Hansen’s involvement with tomorrow’s Capitol Climate Action protest entails giving a keynote speech.
Hansen maintains that “we need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet." Hansen equates coal-fired power plants to “factories of death” and argues that he was silenced by the Bush administration when he began to discuss global warming.
According to the Capitol Climate Action website, the protest will take place at the Capitol Power Plant: "The Capitol Power Plant, sitting just blocks from Capitol Hill, symbolizes the stranglehold coal has over our government and future. It’s not the largest or the dirtiest power plant in the country, but as the plant that is actually run by and for Congress it serves as an incredibly iconic symbol of what is wrong with our country’s energy and climate policy. From being outdated and inefficient, to burning dirty fossil fuels including coal, to having its clean-up blocked by politicians pandering to coal industry interests, we see this plant as the strategic target to address our concerns.”
The protest is being organized by over 90 groups, ranging from “international environmental organizations, grassroots climate justice groups, frontline communities most impacted by climate change and fossil fuels, [and] faith-based organizations.” Hansen’s involvement, however, continues to irk lawmakers and colleagues alike. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has repeatedly called for Hansen to reconsider his involvement with the protest: "If he wants to have a demonstration concerning global warming, coming to the Capitol is not a right choice. The bottom line is if Hansen wants to protest global warming, he should go to the National Cathedral and take it up with God rather than going to Capitol Hill.”
Rohrabacher, a member of the House's Committee on Science and Technology, has also called for Hansen to “step out” of his role.
Will tomorrow’s protest prove to be Hansen’s undoing? With so many lawmakers calling motives and misrepresented data into question, Hansen's departure seems like a long time coming. The Capitol Climate Action protest makes clear Hansen’s inability to separate his position as a scientist and his role as a political activist. If nothing else, the protest might be a forced reflection of Hansen’s larger problem: his inability to distinguish fact from fiction, genuine alarm from lobbyist-driven agenda.
I hope he brings his galoshes and mitts.
I nominate Hansen for the Joseph Goebbels Award for Government Misinformation.
When the sheeple finally figure out they aren't getting their free car and house and how much this global warming hocus pocus is costing them, there will be lots of civil disobedience.
Nothing but global warming going on here in Western New York State. It’s a balmy 12 degrees.
I had a very interesting conversation with my brother over the weekend. Now, he’s a big California liberal, and always very ahead-of-the-curve on all things political. He always seems to know what is going to be happening next in progressive political circles.
We’ve gone at it hammer-and-tong over AGW over the years. He was always a true believer, and I have always been a skeptic, since the 1980s, when I was sitting around the Math Department at Berkeley talking about environmental models and how they could be massively powerful tools for manipulating public policy.
Anyway, my brother was going on about how he wants to buy a Chevy Volt when they come out, and how he thinks the plug-in hybrid will be a revolutionary product. I decided to needle him gently about how the Volt will actually have a larger carbon footprint than a conventional car of similar size if the electricity used to charge it comes from a coal-fired power plant.
He blithely replied that all that carbon stuff was nonsense, and he was really concerned about reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil. So if he could run his car off of domestic coal, he was all for that, because this would mean that we would not longer have to support military adventures around the World to secure oil supplies.
Well, I about dropped my beer. A averred that kicking terrorist butt was a good thing in itself, and let it go at that.
So, my big prediction is that the Left is going to give up on this AGW business by the end of the year. We are about to experience a “Two Legs Better” moment, where the narrative will suddenly change.
And 13 inches of global warming....and still coming down.
If Iraq were really about oil, how come we din't just invade Canada or Alaska? I love asking that to the ignorati (not menaing you!).
I have that argument penciled in for Thanksgiving '09...
Timing is everything.
“Calling for “mass civil disobedience”
Al Gore makes a billion marketing this scam and energy producers are the bad guys? Whatta world..whatta world...
Not for nothing, I would think global warming freaks would pick a day in summer to rally. Why the dufuses picked March 2nd is beyond me.
Seems to me traffic is in really bad shape around here. Half foot of snow everywhere. Wind coming up. 20 degrees/12 degrees tonight.
Maybe someone could be satisfied by pulling his valvecores and leaving him flat tires ~
Good luck!
Dark Days for Green Energy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/business/04windsolar.html
Wind and solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is plummeting.
The false October data supported the AGW argument on Election Day.
The “faulty sensor” data supported the AGW argument on Inauguration Day.
The data is all going against them. It is obvious that the AGW argument is unsupportable. But, through trickery, it may still be possible to make AGW look real two or three days a year. It looks as if they are picking those days with great care.
Please....someone post a picture of a protester holding a GW sign with it snowing heavy. That would be classic.
Saddam had already endangered the oil flow with its war with Iran. After that , he invaded another oil producer, Kuwait, & threatened Saudi Arabia.
I also believe Saddam had a sophisticated WMD program, which was one more reason to invade.
IMO, the invasions of Iraq & Afghanistan were the ONLY real accomplishments of GWB’s presidency. He certainly was no conservative re. fiscal or social policy.
If it was done for oil, that's fine with me, whether he said so or not.
The US has had a major naval presence in the Gulf since before the ‘70s. What do you think we are protecting if it is not the oil?
The world is a safer place, Iraqis have a chance at freedom, & Gulf oil is a little bit safer. All excellent reasons to invade.
GWB emphasized the WMD aspect of the threat because he knew the libs were far more likely to support the invasion than if it were purely based on protecting to flow of oil in the Gulf. Libs are easy to scare re. poisons & such. But they HATE oil, with a passion!
We may soon see what happens when the world oil supply is threatened, & a weak, cowardly , oil-hating president does nothing to FIX the situation. Iran, Indonesia, Russia, & Venezuela come to mind.
I don’t have a link, but you should read Dr. Gray’s open letter concerning this award. He calls it as it is.
Hansen must be selling windmills.
70% of the electric power in the US is generated by burning coal.
It would take decades to replace coal, assuming we were willing to do it.
Oh man, thanks for that one, I'm going to use that on everyone I meet starting today....
Actually, just over 50%, but as to replacing coal as a fuel, it can not be done unless we also commit to negative economic growth, massive electric price increases and frequent, as in daily, power outages in major metropolitan areas.
In other words, we can do without coal only if we also consent to becoming a 3rd world country.
But then again, 3rd world status for the US has been the goal of the eco-left since they jumped on the 'environmental bandwagon 30 years ago.
Have at it!
I haven't been keeping up. This is the recently released 2007 data from the DOE.
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