In June 1988, Hansen testified to the US Congress that 1988 would be the hottest year ever (like he does almost every year)
Sad for him, a La Nina formed over the summer and ruined his plans. So he went back to the press to explain his screw up, and described la Nina as “unusual Pacific Ocean currents.”
To Hansen, La Nina is the work of El Diablo.
Ellensburg Daily Record – Google News Archive Search
But fear not! He later went back and readjusted 1988 to become the hottest year – in spite of La Nina!
If Hansen was the official NFL scorekeeper, Joe Namath would never have won the Super Bowl. You imagined the whole thing.
June1998 the US was ten months into a One Solar/Earth Year ‘Dry’ Cycle. This Cycle reached Australia in early January 1998.
Interesting how a “leading expert” would conclude hurricanes would be “stronger” despite the conclusion that “global warming” would result in a decrease in temperature difference (and thereby a pressure difference) between the Pole and the Equator
Agreed, just more BS from Hansen, as is typically expected from him.
Sorry, that should read 1988.
Even the alleged 0.8C increase in temperature over the last century and a half is suspect. How much of the increase is the result of the urban heat island (UHI), which is insufficiently adjusted for in NCDC and GISS temperature measurements? How much of the past warming signal is simply the result of natural factors, including a more active sun or the positive phases of the PDO and AMO?
The alarmists are still unable to prove that man-made CO2 is the culprit driving “global warming.” Their conclusions are based on unproven theories (i.e. radiative forcing from CO2 — 0.04 percent of the atmosphere, of which man’s portion is minuscule — plus positive water-vapor feedback) and tweaked climate models. As we’ve seen over the past decade, the earth’s climate isn’t cooperating with their laboratory analyses. Observation trumps theories and models every day of the week.