While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.
Didn’t he also say that restaurants would have signs in their windows that read, “Water by request only.”
Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”
When did he say this will happen?
Within 20 or 30 years. And remember we had this conversation in 1988 or 1989.
Does he still believe these things?
Yes, he still believes everything. I talked to him a few months ago and he said he wouldn’t change anything that he said then.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/white-child-pummeled-by-blacks-on-bus/
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students
Does that mean now there must be 3 white students that beat up a black child, in order to meet Obama’s quota system?
It’s only racist if you’re white.
Jim “World’s Leading Climate Scientist” Hansen is full of sh1t3 … why does anybody bother to listen to that vacuous twit ?
The credulous presstitutes still give these clowns unlimited air time to scare the sheeple.
Of course their retirement funds might be tied-up in Solyndra stock…. So they need to keep beating the dead warming horse.
Apparently the prediction was for 40 years. From http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/ :
Michaels also has the facts wrong about a 1988 interview of me by Bob Reiss, in which Reiss asked me to speculate on changes that might happen in New York City in 40 years assuming CO2 doubled in amount. Michaels has it as 20 years, not 40 years, with no mention of doubled CO2. Reiss verified this fact to me, but he later sent the message:
“I went back to my book and re-read the interview I had with you. I am embarrassed to say that although the book text is correct, in remembering our original conversation, during a casual phone interview with a Salon magazine reporter in 2001 I was off in years. What I asked you originally at your office window was for a prediction of what Broadway would look like in 40 years, not 20. But when I spoke to the Salon reporter 10 years later probably because I’d been watching the predictions come true, I remembered it as a 20 year question.“
Well, that certainly makes a difference. Still, it has been 25 years so far and only 15 more to go. I am not aware of ANY sensible sea level or climate change so far. I go to the beaches and I cannot see a difference. I still sweat each summer and shiver each winter. Any changes have been not noticeable to an average observer. I wonder if Hansen would still be willing to back a prediction that the highway will be flooded and water will be only on request in another 15 years? Better hurry up some!
In 15 years, zombie Hansen (or his acolytes) will say the it was not 40 years, it was 60 years. By then we’ll be back into another upward swing of the climate cycle. We will probably go through about 10 years of global cooling scare just like last time but the pattern the last 150 years seems to be rapid rise for ~30 years, then flattening with only slight cooling for ~30 years. If anything the warming seems to last a bit longer and sometimes the cooling is shorter. (35 years vs. 25 years) Of course it is hard to tell with all the adjustments they make to the measured temperatures.
Just as with population scares and peak oil, this climate change nonsense will be with us forever because people are fucking stupid and the media loves scary headlines – that’s how they make money. And because climate changie-ness can be anything apparently on any local scale. (i.e. weather).
Translation: Ric Werme’s comment is just so much wasted and misdirected words, without an “I was wrong, of course” on the end. 20 years, 40 years — that’s not the point.
It would be one thing if was merely a scientist with a bias towards his own beliefs. It is quite another that he spent a quarter century at NASA dickering with the raw data to “adjust” it so that it would conform with his beliefs. Not only did he waste huge amounts of time and taxpayer dollars, he is going to waste the time of the fellow who will have to go through all the data, at some future date, and return it to its original state.
I lost all respect back in 2007, when Steve McIntyre posted the “New Leaderboard” post at Climate Audit that attracted so much attention the site crashed. http://climateaudit.org/2007/08/08/a-new-leaderboard-at-the-us-open/
However good did come out of the situation. It was a wake-up call for me, when the government didn’t throw the book at him. Also it alerted me to the existence of a new site, WUWT.