Hansen’s Super El Nino Forecast Makes Him The World’s Greatest Scientist

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Scientist Forecasts ‘super El Niño’

By John Fleck
Copyright © 2006 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
One of the country’s leading climate scientists says there is “a good chance” for a “super El Niño” next winter, a powerful warming in the Pacific Ocean linked to wet winters in the Southwest.

In a draft paper circulated to colleagues, NASA climate researcher James Hansen blames global warming for increasing the chance of extreme El Niños.

When they happen, such extreme El Niños can wreak weather havoc worldwide, from deep drought in Australia to flooding in California.

Hansen’s new paper drew a flurry of attention among scientists because of his standing as one of the nation’s most prominent climate scientists.

ABQjournal: Scientist Forecasts ‘super El Niño’

Since Hansen’s ingenious forecast, ENSO has gone sharply negative.

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6 Responses to Hansen’s Super El Nino Forecast Makes Him The World’s Greatest Scientist

  1. X says:

    “… Since Hansen’s ingenious forecast, ENSO has gone sharply negative… “
    Looks like they’re still expecting another strong El Nino to hit the central Pacific anytime (as the one they said would happen in 2012, but it didn’t …), because they cannot learn with the observed facts (they’ve proven this repeatedly) that point to the obvious conclusion that the Sun drives this oceanic oscillation too.

  2. jeremyp99 says:

    “Hansen’s new paper drew a flurry of attention among lunatics because of his standing as one of the nation’s most prominent climate lunatics”

  3. tom0mason says:

    Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s Apollo 7 wrote of Hansen.

    “Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA’s own data contradict him,” Cunningham wrote in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science,” Cunningham wrote.

    Also –

    Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming fears soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon joins the rapidly growing ranks of international scientists abandoning the promotion of anthropogenic global warming fears.

  4. David says:

    Looks like the ENSO has been effectively neutral for almost two years. A strong two years of La Nina would be very interesting right now.

  5. Chuck L says:

    James Hansen, Super-Genius!

    http://youtu.be/STeVTzWelns

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