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.
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Hansen’s vision of the future sounds more and more like hallucinations.
There are prescription medications to help with that.
Homer, go see the doctor.
Obamacare will cure you.
Lost in the seventies…
Cuz somehow Venus is a template for the earth. It doesn’t even spin in the same damn direction as Earth and the other planets. He has proof it was ever like Earth? Nooo-I don’t think so. He’s a kook from the get go. Why would a leotard change its spandex? He won’t learn, because he never did.
He really is a prize p*i*k and dangerous too. We don’t want him back in the UK spouting carbon inanities. Encouraging illegal acts of vandalism against our power stations.
This sums up Hansen’s world view:
“The future is certain; only the past is unpredictable.”
(allegedly a Soviet joke about Soviet historiography)
“The present, as historians well know, re-creates the past. This is partly because, once we know how things have come out, we tend to rewrite the past in terms of historical inevitability.”
—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
This suggests that Hansen was never a scientist. He has always been a historian, busily rewriting the past temperature record to confirm the inevitability of his future climate catastrophe.
Since then people have tried to cast doubt on whether he said it or not. The PROBLEM IS why didn’t he correct it when these quotes first started appearing? Why did it take him many YEARS? A simple phone call or email would have sufficed. Hansen is being dishonest. Would you believe an idiot who told you that if we burned all our fossil fuels the oceans would boil and end up in the atmosphere? Hansen’s chickens have come home to roost. It’s of his own making.
Quoted references from Hansen’s own words – audio/video
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/14/boiling-oceans-and-burning-reputations-with-james-hansen/
PS: Shouldn’t we sceptics just give up now? These guys are doing a great job just by themselves.
Here is the audio video linked from WUWT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1uxfiuKB_R8#t=115s
Hansen is a nutcase. This is what happens when you spend too much time dreaming about Venus.
Drinking water usage is well under 1% of total water usage, and the type of environmentalists who say restaurants must not serve free icewater, to reduce water consumption, tend to be idiots and/or penitential enviroreligious.
In this case, it is hard to tell whether Hansen’s predictions may have been inaccurate by intent rather than accident (for many activists don’t really believe all the scare stories they sell and want others to believe*), but, otherwise, the restaurant water remark is illustrative of a trait very common amongst environmental activists: mathematical illiteracy (being perhaps able to use math in a school assignment if forced to do so but not applying it in ordinary thought).
* Beneath the surface arguments of CAGW, Hansen himself quite likely believes in general environmental resource myths or has other deeper motives, of the type which could make CAGW seem like a good excuse for what he wants anyway; whether he really believes in CAGW itself or not (as opposed to wanting others to believe) would be a separate question, though.