Due to the extreme cold, New York has had no murders for 12 days.
In 1998, Hansen predicted that parts of Manhattan would be underwater by now, and that crime would shoot up because of the heat..
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.”
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.
He was paid well for delivering this message.
There”s quite a contest to see who will rack up the greatest number of monumentally failed predictions in a lifetime:
A) James Hansen
B) Paul Ehrlich
C) Al Gore
Hasn’t Ehrlich been shown to be a colossal failure as a prophet of doom already? I was in HS in the 70s when his books were selling like hot cakes, and it seems to me he was completely wrong about everything with the possible…possible…exception of the punctuation.
“Prophets of Doom” always fail; one can apply that axiom to any particular field of your choosing: AGW, Y2K, SARS, Bird Flu, EMP, Solar Flares, etc.
The really BIG catastrophes occur w/o much, if any, warning.
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And now Ebola it would seem.
D) NASA
E) All of the above
Catastrophic climate change is a cult. If these apocalyptic predictions were made on account of man’s moral sin the progressives would first in line destroying the movement. But because the solution is ever greater government control the progressives are first in line embracing it! At some point a “child” will declare the emperor has no clothes and the climate change paradigm will collapse with a swiftness that will amaze the world. When that happens the poor suckers who actually believe “climate change” is about science will be the last to know they were just convenient tools.
At the cost of being hooted down with great derision I’m actually more inclined to believe in the moral judgement of God as the cause of any abrupt climate change than the folly of capitalism.
Actually Catastrophic climate change is not a cult but a well thought out propaganda campaign by the UN and the Globalists. If CAGW was just a cult we could laugh at it and move on. Instead it is backed by powerful people world wide and the goal is a world government based on Socialism/Communism. Heck United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres even came right out and said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, is the best model. dailycaller(DOT)com/2014/01/15/un-climate-chief-communism-is-best-to-fight-global-warming/
Pascal Lamy was two term Director General of the World Trade Organization ( 2005-2013) and rpior to that he served as chef de cabinet to the President of the European Commission from 1984 – 1994. In 1999, he was appointed European Commissioner for Trade and is a possible for the next President of the European Commission.
In June of 2011 Lamy stated this:
In other words as far back as the 1930s, FDR agreed to give up US sovereignty and make the USA a vassal state of a world government. The history of the USA since then is the history of a move from capitalism, national independence, patriotism and unity towards dependence, internal conflict among groups and a culture promoting hatred of the USA.
For an example see the Department of Defence Document Judicial Watch obtained by FOIA. It labels patriots, “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule” people who put their nation’s welfare above that of other nations and people who protest globlization as Extremists. “…“Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publically espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”…” The guide repeatedly tells readers to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a resource in identifying hate groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center is the group who labeled possible Presidential candidate Ben Carson an extremist.
I am sure the United Nations loves this document.
The EU was the social experiment to see if people/nations could be tricked into giving up their sovereignty. SEE: Was Britain taken into the EU illegally? and Lamy’s Global governance requires localising global issues: …The European construction is the most ambitious experiment in supranational governance ever attempted up to now. It is the story of a desired, delineated and organized interdependence between its Member States.
The more I learn about human society the more I realize that honesty and correctness mean just about nothing. It’s all about manipulation and perception. All the facts in the world don’t help. People have their perceptions and that’s what they believe. Global warming should have been discredited by the normal scientific process by now. The hypothesis failed. It should be discredited instead it’s considered “settled science”. Dan W. wrote above that it’s a cult, it is. Other words apply as well. It’s all about the manipulations of people’s perceptions. How often they are wrong is simply irrelevant.
And this can be said of a lot of things, not just climate change.
I agree with you on much, including climate. But in the endgame there are limits that even human ingenuity cannot avoid. See ebook Gaia’s Limits for the boring, slogging details.
Increased prosperity is the best limit on population growth. Most Western contries have lower than replacement value – negative- population growth. The only reason the USA has slightly above replacement value is because of the large number of immigrants.
Overpopulation: The Fallacy Behind The Fallacy Of Global Warming by Dr. Tim Ball
Overpopulation is another MONSTER UNDER THE BED used to scare the sheele.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —- H. L. Mencken
There Is No Shortage of Stuff – Functionally Unlimited Resources Exist
Unlimiting Resources – Basalt for a High Tech Stone Age
Hansen can’t be that much of a scientist. Here it’s been 26 years since his prediction and the rate of sea level rise hasn’t changed. How do you get it that wrong? Maybe he should have stuck to his field of study, Astrophysics. He could have been telling us to prepare for more asteroids hitting the Earth because we haven’t stop driving SUV’s.
It’s not so much that he was wrong about his conclusions as a scientist – the essence of science is hypothesis, then correcting the hypothesis when it proves inaccurate, after all.
It’s that he will never admit he was wrong, as the article attests.
That’s the hallmark of baseless faith, not “science.”
Yet anyone who doesn’t swalliw this **** is a Darwin-damned DENIER!!!!
World leaders have obviously worked together behind-the-scenes for the last seventy years, from the time the UN was formed in 1945 until 2015,
directing tax public funds to scientists willing to manipulate, hide or adjust data and observations that would:
1. Undercut UN’s Agenda 21:
http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/index.htm
2. Reveal the Higher Power that makes and sustains every atom, life and world in the solar system:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10640850/Solar_Energy_For_Review.pdf
Only 3-4 years to go for that 20-30 year prediction. LOL
Yeah, that’s what I was going to say. Maybe he’ll revise his opinion in 2018?
The Salon article is from 2001. So to be fair, which is more than they deserve, or offer anyone who dares dispute them; I doubt he still stands by his hubris of 1988-89 in 2015.
I doubt he still stands by his hubris of 1988-89 in 2015.
Boy, that is definitely not true. Read on, for the super silly, supercilious James Hansen hasn’t backed down one bit, he’s actually gone full social activist moonbat in his doddering years (notice the NY Times conveniently fails to elucidate all of his failed predictions and perpetuates the now-obvious myth of continued global warming).
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/james-e-hansen-retiring-from-nasa-to-fight-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Being a government sponsored alarmist just pays too damn well to give it up. He’s thinking of his grandchildren, and their inheritance.
“His initial estimate of the earth’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases was somewhat on the high side, later work showed. But he was among the first scientists to identify the many ways the planet is likely to respond to rising temperatures and to show how those effects would reinforce one another to produce immense changes in the climate and environment, including a sea level rise that could ultimately flood many of the world’s major cities.”
Yeah, “somewhat on the high side” NY Times…. he “missed it by that much.” (/Snicker, chortle)
Crow.
Hansen should be eating crow.
Morning, noon and night.
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I’d feed him something else.
That doesn’t seem fair. He has been feeding us sh!t for years …