In 1988, climate fraudster James Hansen said Manhattan would be underwater by 2008.
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.
Undaunted by the spectacular failure of his 1988 prophesy, he is repeating the same nonsense in 2015
The new study by Hansen and 16 colleagues believes even averting the 2.0 degree temperature increase would still not be a safe “guardrail” that the media, and some politicians, would have the world believe. Hansen also thinks the IPCC is not estimating how quickly the ice sheets can melt, which would cause catastrophic sea level rise and would “render coastal cities such as New York, London and Shanghai uninhabitable.” Except current observations show that Antarctica, Greenland, and the Arctic are not melting at the alarming rates as predicted in his new study or the IPCC’s reports.
Is there no way to shut these criminals up, or at least get the press to stop parroting their lies?
the one saving grace is we are now into boy who cried wolf territory steve. people are just not listening anymore .
bit chilly ; I believe you’re right; it appears, the majority of people no longer trust the Global Warming claims with too many failed predictions ; it’s at the cry wolf stage.
In fact, outside of the USA, it hit that turning point well over a year ago.
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The doctrine of Global warming would have died a natural death but for the First Aid by fraudulent Scientists & mouth to mouth resuscitation by Obama. Americans respect cold hard physical evidence ; this now counters AGW assertions on every Continent!
In the UK most people you might speak to in a bar, say, are laughing at AGW – when they can be bothered to listen to its bizarre claims at all that is. There is still a cohort of champagne socialists who react furiously to any skepticism as though you had just insulted their mothers – but will of course never discuss the science as that is “settled”. People who work in major bureaucracies and are largely institutionalised tend to parrot the approved politically correct AGW line but they of course are conditioned not to think and just accept what big brother tells them. The charade is on its last legs now I think and it will be fun watching the wise and the mighty scrambling to distance themselves from the Emperor’s New Model. God alone knows how long it will take to clear the gigatons of AGW hysteria omelette off the faces of so many eminent scientists and politicians though.
“the one saving grace is we are now into boy who cried wolf territory steve. people are just not listening anymore .”
The problem is, the boy is cloned. The one-world government has boys all over the globe being paid to cry wolf… and they all will be meeting in December in Paris.
James Hansen has done a great disservice to the American public and a great service to UN’s effort to form a one-world government.
This was my first Sequel to Climategate:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Sequel.pdf
I came across this on Hansen from 1989 which was interesting because of Thomas Karl’s (NCDC) comments. There he points out that most warming occurred before 1919 before CO2 rose and that cooling dominated from 1921 to 1979.
I think he was the one recently who eliminated the “pause”. How times (and data) change.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aKxdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bl0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2794,1289946&dq=james-hansen+flood&hl=en
Huh? Models that run too hot aren’t hot enough?
https://informativestats.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hayden_ipcc_arrow.jpg
Wrongway Hansen strikes again!
“Is there no way to shut these criminals up, or at least get the press to stop parroting their lies?”
Perhaps it is time we resorted to the “swift kick right in the tuchus” approach.
I’m done with all this global warming imbecility. It’s reached the point where it’s obviously a communist scam with no apologies for being anything but. If you want it to end, vote for this guy.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-gives-out-lindsey-grahams-cellphone-number-124680452426.html
It’s so simple. Vote for anybody else, and we’ll have to hear communists lie about our weather to further their disgusting cause, for 4, 8, 12 or whatever more years until the douchebags are in power. Trump the douchebags.
Kepler’s 160 minute cycle
Thanks to 2009 Climategate emails and damning official responses, the Sun’s pulsar core is gaining attention:
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/keplers-160-minute-solar-cycle/
Despite well-coordinated refusals by
_ a.) The editor of Nature to send our paper out for review, and
_ b.) The US National Academy of Sciences to address to the data
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
What do you expect, his mentor Paul Ehrlich, still insists that his bet with Julian Simon went south on dumb luck and that given another shot at it he would win. Tap dancing on the winners grave, shameful.
History will lump Hansen, and Holdren, in with Ehrlich, Malthus, Rachel Carson and many others.
They have served well, as Stalin’s little helpers in expanding the boarders of the old USSR to include the whole globe under the UN.
In the UK most people you might speak to in a bar, say, are laughing at AGW – when they can be bothered to listen to its bizarre claims at all that is. There is still a cohort of champagne socialists who react furiously to any skepticism as though you had just insulted their mothers – but will of course never discuss the science as that is “settled”. People who work in major bureaucracies and are largely institutionalised tend to parrot the approved politically correct AGW line but they of course are conditioned not to think and just accept what big brother tells them. The charade is on its last legs now I think and it will be fun watching the wise and the mighty scrambling to distance themselves from the Emperor’s New Model. God alone knows how long it will take to clear the gigatons of AGW hysteria omelette off the faces of so many eminent scientists and politicians though.