Dr. James Hansen Warn Of Global Cooling In July 9, 1971 Issue Of Washington Post?

Question

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=275267681833290

Answer 1

No, as your article states, he did not.

"Aiding Rasool's research, the Post reported, was a "computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen," who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time."

Besides which, the model used a scenario in which we continued to increase our aerosol emissions. That didn't happen, so the short-term global cooling was overwhelmed by global warming.

The exact same scenario is true for global warming. If we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we can avoid the predictions of the current climate models.

Thank you for that very important warning. Glad to have you on board the greenhouse gas reductions team.

Answer 2

First of all Dr. James Hansen previously said that he was not concerned about global warming or cooling. Then, in 1971, he, after obviously reading and looking at all the evidence, decides to change his mind. Nothing wrong with that. But it is now 2007 and I hope he has now caught up with the rest of the world's eminent and knowledgeable scientists in their fields who are unamimous in their condemnation of global warming by human activity. If you are seriously interested start by reading The Gaia Theory by Dr. James Lovelock and then continue to read and research. Dr. Lovelock is so concerned that too little has been done, too late that he is working with an american scientist on developing deep pumps in the oceans which hopefully will reverse these potentially catastrophic climate changes.

Answer 3

No. He wrote a computer program to process data. Somebody fed data into it and reported something that proved to be wrong. Hansen had nothing to do with it.

"A report revealed just this week, shows the 'Open Society Institute' funded Hansen to the tune of $720,000, carefully orchestrating his entire media campaign. OSI, a political group which spent $74 million in 2006 to "shape public policy," is funded by billionaire George Soros"

You're kidding, right? That's a ridiculous lie, from the equally ridiculous deniers websites.

Here's the real story, with documented proof. One of Soros' foundations gave $720,000 TOTAL to fight the politicization of science in 2006.

$400,000 of that went to the Union of Concerned Scientists and $220,000 went to the American Society for Cell Biology. Neither grant had anything to do with Hansen.

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/sof/focus_areas/politicization/grantees/

$100,000 of it went to the Government Accountability Project, a longstanding institution:

http://www.whistleblower.org/template/index.cfm

with a budget of $2,000,000. (So Soros funded about 5% of GAP's budget). As a small part of that budget, they provided legal support to Hansen when he was being muzzled.

To transform that into "$720,000 to Hansen" is way past absurd. I would think it's legally actionable, even though the libel laws provide great protection to those criticizing public figures. But this is off the charts lying.

This part, on the "newsbusters" website, is really hilarious:

"Since this editorial was published, according to LexisNexis and Google News searches, not one major media outlet has reported these allegations."

Imagine my surprise.

Answer 4

Yes, then he discovered there was more money in global warming.

Here's an account of the millions he has made from changing his position:

"Hansen received an earlier $250,000 grant from the Heinz Foundation, an organization run by Kerry's wife, which he followed by publicly endorsing Kerry. Hansen also acted as a paid consultant to Gore during the making of his global-warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," and even personally promoted the film during an NYC event."

"A report revealed just this week, shows the 'Open Society Institute' funded Hansen to the tune of $720,000, carefully orchestrating his entire media campaign. OSI, a political group which spent $74 million in 2006 to "shape public policy," is funded by billionaire George Soros"

Clearly Hansen is tainted and should step down from his position. He should also be investigated by congress, but clearly this won't happen with the current congress, as they have no interest exposing that global warming is a political scam to raise tax rateson the people.

Answer 5

I do find it more than a little bit suspicious that this information did not come from Hansen himself.

Hansen should have long ago explained how his conversion to AGW advocate came about. That he did not speaks loudly against his credibility and his integrity.

(Note that I would be equally suspicious of a leading skeptic who had reversed position without explanation)

Answer 6

Um... no. Just a thought, but maybe you should try reading articles before posting a link to them. Just so, y'know, you at least have some idea as to what the article is about.

Answer 7

Lol you can not be serious?

ROFLMAO you are citing a July 9 1971 issue of Washington Post - sorry but this has to be a wind up???

Dana1981 you answered it? I don't know what is funniest you citing it or Dana taking his time to respond. ROFLMAO Thanks anyway boys for the laugh I will star your question now.

Answer 8

As the pendulum swings so dose the money .

Answer 9

stop making liberals look stoopid

Answer 10

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