Global temperatures have been flat to down for the last 16 years, but Hansen is undaunted. He is warming recent temperatures at a rate of one degree per century, which is faster than the hockey stick.
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“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
Since GISS claims that surface temperatures are warming faster than troposphere temperatures, GISS has just falsified their own model predictions of Satan’s gas causing a faster warming rate in the troposphere compared with the surface.
Reminds me of a line from the movie The American President-
“People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. They drink the sand because they don’t know the difference.”
Hansen is undaunted because like the Nazis before him, propaganda for a bigger cause is always justified.