In June 1988, Hansen sabotaged the air conditioner in Congress and told us that the world is coming to an end. Temperatures in 2012 are 0.2C cooler than they were at the time of his testimony.
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
On June 23, 1988, (Hansen) delivered his testimony in an unusually toasty hearing room. Why was it so warm? As then-Sen. Tim Wirth (D., Colo.), told ABC’s Frontline: “We went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room . . . it was really hot.”
The Chicken Littles’ predictions of disaster were baloney then, and baloney now. A screeching scratching broken record. Never ending it seems. The people have had enough of the unceasing farbication, the endless laughable doom and gloom. It’s obvious bull.
And that Senator Tim Wirth is a little too openly devious for his own good. Also from Wirth (1993): “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing …”