In 1988, Hansen predicted that it would be the hottest year ever. It wasn’t, so he blamed his misprediction on an “unusual Pacific Ocean current” i.e. La Nina.
Twenty five years later, Hansen still hasn’t figured out that La Nina is a normal part of the climate.
And the way back machine strikes again . Hansen hates historical records .
Changing ‘history’ to ‘his story’.
Hansen… the king of flop
The only thing record setting is the list of Hansen’s failed ‘scenarios’.
There was a famous long range weather forecaster who lived near Brisbane, Australia. He used sunspot activity for his weather forecasting and had an admirable record UNTIL he succumbed to commercial temptation in 1973.
He agreed to appear in TV commercials for a brand of lawn sprinkler during winter/spring of 1973. During this time he changed his predictions from dry times to an approaching wet period. He tried in vain to have the advertising campaign inducing purchase of lawn sprinklers on the basis of his previous prediction of an approaching dry period removed from TV.
So the poor bugger was stuck in the position of being seen on TV advocating the purchase of lawn sprinklers, unable to get his new predictions even heard, just before January 1974 when it rained almost continuously every day culminating in more than inch an hour continuous rainfall for more than 30 hours resulting in the Australia Day floods in Brisbane.
The 1974 flood was the largest flood in Brisbane since 1893 – 2011 was not as large.
So this suggests a lesson to climate scientists – don’t appear too cock-sure – you may have to eat your words.
Now you ar getting the most malformed, misshapen tropical storms imaginable out in the middle of nowhere. But there is record activity!
Funding Continues: “One such effort is the climate modeling community working toward a shared software infrastructure for building, configuring, running, and analyzing climate models that could help scientists navigate the imminent transition to more complex supercomputing hardware.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120907125152.htm