Global Warm-mongering: More Silk from a Pig's Ear (NASA's James Hansen...is at it again.)

American Thinker ^ | January 06, 2009 | Gregory Young

[neverdem]

It seems that NASA's James Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), is at it again.  He just can't let the data speak for itself.  In yet another egregious display of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) arrogance, he changed the temperature data from 1910-2008 to reflect what is clearly a cooling trend to reflect a warming trend.  (Y-axis = Annual Mean Temperatures in centigrade; X-axis = Year)

These are the USHCN (United States Historical Climatology Network) "raw" and "homogenized" data plots from the GISTEMP (GISS Surface Temperature) website synthesized into one chart with polynomial fit trend lines. As seen in this comparison chart, the Blue Lines represent raw data -- clearly indicating a cooling trend.  Whereas the Red Lines are the adjusted trends after subjected to Hansen's own curiously compensating algorithm.  Junk in = Junk out.

Indeed this past year (2008) is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released this month by the Met Office's Hadley Centre in Great Britain. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.

Nevertheless, global warming partisans at the Met and elsewhere have taken to assuring everyone that cool temperatures are "absolutely not" evidence that global warming is on the wane. Yet those warning and cautionary adamancies are always absent when it comes to linking heat waves to global warming.  "Curiouser and curiouser," said Lewis Carroll.

However, One major glitch in the reporting of temperatures has been quietly forgotten by the Met and others of AGW persuasion as documented here....  When the Soviet Union fell in 1990 the number of reporting weather stations around the world declined from a high of 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 in 2000, no appropriate compensatory weighting mechanism was thereafter applied.  Such an absence critically skews everything thereafter to the warmer side of things, since it takes some of the coldest places on the planet (like Siberia) out of the equation.  With that absence, it's likely getting colder than we now know.  How convenient! 

Said Geophysicist Dr. David Deming, associate professor of arts and sciences at the University of Oklahoma who has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles:

"Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover.... To the extent global warming was ever valid, it is now officially over. It is time to file this theory in the dustbin of history, next to Aristotelean physics, Neptunism, the geocentric universe, phlogiston, and a plethora of other incorrect scientific theories, all of which had vocal and dogmatic supporters who cited incontrovertible evidence. Weather and climate change are natural processes beyond human control. To argue otherwise is to deny the factual evidence."  

Amen and Amen!

Dr. Gregory Young is a neuroscientist and physicist, a doctoral graduate of the University of Oxford, Oxford, England.  He currently chairs a privately funded think-tank engaged in experimental biophysical research.

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[neverdem]

James Hansen's credibility has to be undermined, like the way Sarah Palin was undermined as described in this story except Hansen's misdeeds are known facts.

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Hansen: Still a Jackass.

[CedarDave]

Suggest everyone visit http://icecap.us/ which has a compilation of articles on all phases of global warming and climate change.

[Mr. K]

this guy should be fired for falsifying data

[YOUGOTIT]

James Hansen lies every day and gets away with it because he is a left wing Democrat and they want him to lie.

[Sgt_Schultze]

James Hansen is a Global Cooling denier.

[Flycatcher]

It’s possible that James Hansen may freeze to death this winter than abandon his global warming hoax.

[saganite]

There were posts from last year I believe which cited other ways the data had been skewed by Hansen and other warmists to cover data they didn’t like. One that I remember was to take actual temperature readings provided by satellites and “correct” them by applying a formula to reflect a process they claimed was occurring in the atmosphere that could not be directly measured. Of course, this made the resultant data warmer. I also remember discussion of corrections to historical climate data that revised temperature readings taken from earlier reports to “correct” data showing years in the 1930’s as the warmest since measurements were taken.

Maybe someone here remembers those discussions and can revive those threads or provide links to the actual articles.

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When is NASA going to fire this turd?

[ETL]

"James Hansen, the director of the agency's [NASA's] Goddard Institute for Space Studies, received a $250,000 grant from the charitable foundation headed by former Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz. Subsequent to the Heinz Foundation grant, Hansen publicly endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, a political endorsement considered to be highly unusual for a NASA scientist.":
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Brokaw%20Global%20Warming%20Show.html

James Hansen (quote), from October 2004:

"Several years ago I received the Heinz Environment Award. I don't know who nominated me for that award or how the selection works."

"I am confident that it has no impact on my evaluation of the climate problem or on my political leanings."

"In the upcoming election I will vote for John Kerry."

Source: Columbia University.edu [pdf]:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/dai_complete.pdf

Also see: Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12187

NASA's Hansen Mentioned in [George] Soros Foundation's Annual Report:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/26/nasa-s-hansen-mentioned-soros-foundations-annual-report

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link. Happy New Year!

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links. Happy New Year!

[GOPJ]

Shame on NASA.

[ETL]

You’re welcome. Thank YOU for the article. And Feliz Ano Nuevo!

[Chode]

$10bucks says he's got a MONSTER offshore account somewhere...

[NavVet]

The sad fact is that no matter how many times Hansen gets caught cooking the books, 90% of the sheeple still see him as the whistleblower that Bush tried to silence.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I like the sound of that:

“Anthropogenic Global Phlogiston”.

Kind of like global warming caused by “dark matter” made of CO2. Invisible, odorless, unmeasurable, man-made, yet able to control Earth’s atmosphere.

[Ditto]

Hansen should be reassigned to Wall Street to calculate the Dow Jones. Using his magical-mystery algorithms, my 401K would always be up! :~))

[neverdem]

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