Hansen's Hysteria

James is at it again. Sounds like he has been listening to the advisers of Harold Camping.

"The global warming signal is now louder than the noise of random weather, as I predicted would happen by now in the journal Science in 1981. Extremely hot summers have increased noticeably. We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human-induced climate change."

Check out the last three links that were added to the quote by this writer.

Hysteria it is. Hansen is doing a monumental impersonation of Harold Camping. "If this sounds apocalyptic, it is". Hansen means to sound apocalyptic. This is enough to convince me that we are OK and the world is not in crisis. People who make apocalyptic predictions have never been correct.  My skeptical radar turns on automatically whenever such prognostications are uttered. Hansen sounds more reasonable than Camping because Hansen has a science background. He also started the global warming 'crisis' in 1988. Unlike James Lovelock or Klaus-Eckart Puls Hansen is unable or unwilling to review the evidence and have his eyes opened unto the truth. But then he has a lot to lose and it would take a man of great character to admit that he was wrong. Apparently, Hansen has invested too much of his reputation in the AGW theory to back out now. His psyche could not stand the knowledge that he has been backing the wrong horse all these years.

Interestingly, a year 2000 study has surfaced, published by the American National Academy of Science, authored by none other than James Hansen, that shows NASA knew global warming is caused by non-CO2 factors. Well, gollllleee!

Happily the winds of change are blowing.

Begin challenging your own assumptions.  Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.  ~Alan Alda