Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, advocate, and protestor with a rap sheet released a new paper (non peer reviewed) on his website recently. A video report follows. The paper is titled:Posted on 04/21/2011 10:33:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, advocate, and protestor with a rap sheet released a new paper (non peer reviewed) on his website recently. A video report follows. The paper is titled:
Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications (click for PDF)
Here’s a portion of the abstract:
Improving observations of ocean temperature confirm that Earth is absorbing more energy from the sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum. This energy imbalance provides fundamental verification of the dominant role of the human-made greenhouse effect in driving global climate change. Observed surface temperature change and ocean heat gain constrain the net climate forcing and ocean mixing rates. We conclude that most climate models mix heat too efficiently into the deep ocean and as a result underestimate the negative forcing by human-made aerosols. Aerosol climate forcing today is inferred to be ‒1.6 ± 0.3 W/m2, implying sub
This line is rather odd:
A recent decrease in ocean heat uptake was caused by a delayed rebound effect from Mount Pinatubo aerosols…
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
This guy should limit himself to Muslim outreach.
Or maybe find another job. No wonder NASA is going down the sewer.
Ah, geez, not this shit again!
democrats!!!... (Eddie Murphy laugh)...
Hansen spinning a new Fairy Tale!
Is it possible that we don’t get anymore water than what was here in the beginning? It just keeps getting recycled, no? So if that is true, and I don’t know if it is or not but, makes sense to me. How would the seas rise?
YO HANSEN, you MORON!!!
If it’s not peer reviewed ... it’s NOT Science!
If it’s Consensus ... it’s NOT Science!
Get on board that last shuttle flight... and STAY OUT THERE!!!
**How would the seas rise?**
It’s that darned Polar Ice cap melting...
ALTHOUGH, 3rd grade Science shows us that melting Ice does NOT RAISE water level... I remain astounded at the amount of STUPIDITY involved in Higher Education.
Please tell me the Ryan Budget defunds this @§§¶¤(£
Please tell me the Ryan Budget defunds this @§§¶¤(£
It’s those stinking martians. They wait until this guy goes down to the beach, and then six or seven of them jump into the water.
They were there all the time but they were underwater. Now they are visible.
LOL!
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James Sexton says:
Anthony, not to quibble, it is after all, Hansen’s statement, and we know how he believes historical information can be dynamic and ehem fluid , but I believe the story now adds the caveat of a doubling of CO2 also. I just wanted to give you a heads up so you can prepare for the backlash of criticizing one of the high priests of CAGW.
REPLY: Thanks. I saw that and there’s lots more, I just needed to limit this one blog post as it was getting large. I’ll have more later. – Anthony
1955 - 29029 ft 2005 - 29029 ft Any guesses what theses elevations were measured against????
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chris y says:
This paper is a shocker.
Hansen has conceded that the error bars around forcings due to volcanic aerosols (both their magnitude and their persistence), and the error bars around the sequestering of heat into the deep oceans, are at least as large as the forcing due to all anthro CO2 emissions. Yet only a few years ago Gavin S. published a short letter in Physics Today bragging about how well the models were able to replicate the behavior of global temperature during and after the Pinatubo eruption, and that this was settled science. Oops.
Hansen has also invoked reduced solar activity to help explain the last decade of flat temperatures, which implies that short-term solar forcings are similar in magnitude with anthro CO2 forcings. This is being invoked at a time when CO2 forcings are purportedly their largest in millenia. This is completely antithetical to the IPCC reports, which poo-poo solar as a minor player on the forcing bench compared with the CO2 star.
In other words, after nearly a half-century of computer climate models (Manabe assembled one of the first back in the early 1960′s), they are still curve-fitting exercises with no predictive skill on any temporal or spatial scale.
“ALTHOUGH, 3rd grade Science shows us that melting Ice does NOT RAISE water level...”
No, they don’t claim ice cap melting will raise the sea level, they claim that glaciers on land will melt and the runoff will raise the ocean levels.
Just happened?
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