Monthly Archives: January 2014

BBC News – Q&A: Professor Phil Jones SUV’s must have been a huge problem in 1860.

The defense for Hansen’s 1988 failed predictions seems to be “global warming is much less than forecast” The same people also tell us that global warming is much worse than forecast. A bunch of total nutcases.

The deluded minions of Hansen convince themselves that his forecasts were correct. Classic case of the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Methane is unstable and breaks down quickly in the atmosphere, and even if it doubled would have essentially no impact on the greenhouse effect. In the tropics, the effect would be an increase in downwelling longwave radiation of about 0.04%. … Continue reading →

Bill Illis posted a table from RealFakeClimate showing Hansen’s scenario A/B/C assumptions. What was inside was just about what I should have expected from Homer. He is off by three orders of magnitude in his CFC numbers www.realclimate.org/data/H88_scenarios.dat The table … Continue reading →

09 Jul 1988 – SATURDAY MAGAZINE The big heat is on h/t to Andy Oz

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James Hansen’s research shows that a mini-runaway, pushing global temperatures to 10-12 degrees C above the Holocene, is all but certain under continuous, business as usual, fossil fuel burning through 2100. James Hansen and the Three Categories of the Runaway … Continue reading →

sea level rise of many meters should be anticipated with the global warming of at least several degrees Celsius that is expected under business-as-usual (BAU) climate scenarios  www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf