After James Hansen appeared before Congress in 1988, the consensus was skeptical about his claims.
September 29, 1988 – Great Lakes weather probed
This was resolved in 1993, when newly elected VP Al Gore 0cut off funding to skeptical scientists like Dr. Bill Gray. NASA also erased the post-1940 global cooling from the temperature record, which made it much easier for scientists to fall in line with Al Gore’s climate scam.
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