Real Climate Science

On June 23, 1988 NASA’s James Hansen told Congress that global warming had begun.

Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate – The New York Times

One June 22, the night before his testimony, Hansen and Senator Tim Wirth sabotaged the air conditioner in the meeting room.

we called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6 or June 9 or whatever it was, so we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo: It was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it. It was stiflingly hot that summer. [At] the same time you had this drought all across the country, so the linkage between the Hansen hearing and the drought became very intense.

… What we did it was went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right? So that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room and so when the, when the hearing occurred there was not only bliss, which is television cameras in double figures, but it was really hot. …  So Hansen’s giving this testimony, you’ve got these television cameras back there heating up the room, and the air conditioning in the room didn’t appear to work. So it was sort of a perfect collection of events that happened that day, with the wonderful Jim Hansen, who was wiping his brow at the witness table and giving this remarkable testimony.

Interviews – Timothy Wirth | Hot Politics | FRONTLINE | PBS

That day was by far the hottest June 22 on record in the US, with almost the entire country over 90 degrees and much of the country over 100 degrees.

That summer was the last really hot summer in the US, but in matters of climate, facts are irrelevant. The political left found an excuse to blame humans and seize power, and that was the end of any pretense in reality with climate science.

People had an excuse for believing James Hansen’s BS this week in 1988.  Temperatures were very hot and the Mississippi River nearly dried up. Almost the entire country was above 90 degrees. But 1988 was an outlier – summer temperatures have been declining in the US for a century.

People didn’t know what was causing the drought, and snake oil salesman James Hansen offered them a cure.  All they had to do was give up their modern lifestyle and submit to global governance.

19 Jun 1988, 1 – The Jackson Sun at Newspapers.com

Thirty years later, the only excuse people have for believing Hansen’s nonsense, is ignorance.

The consensus of climate experts tell us NASA’s James Hansen was correct in 1988.

Climate scientists’ consensus: James Hansen ‘got it right’ in congressional global warming and human causation testimony 30 years ago this week.

Judgment on Hansen’s ’88 climate testimony: ‘He was right’ » Yale Climate Connections

In 1988, Hansen predicted Lower Manhattan would be underwater by 2018.

“The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water.”

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

The West Side Highway does not appear to be underwater this morning.

511NY | New York Traffic | Commuter Information | Road Conditions

Lower Manhattan sea level is slightly lower now than it was 20 years ago.

Sea Level Trends – NOAA Tides & Currents

Hansen predicted heat and drought for the Midwest.

24 Jun 1988, 1 – The Miami News at Newspapers.com

Since Hansen’s forecast for Midwest drought, the Midwest has had above normal precipitation almost every year.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Maximum temperatures and the occurrence of heatwaves in the Midwest have plummeted to record lows.

Hansen predicted global warming would lower the water level in the Great Lakes.

24 Jun 1988, 4 – The Miami News at Newspapers.com

Great Lakes water levels have increased and are near record highs.

Great Lakes Dashboard – HTML5

Hansen predicted four degrees warming for the US by 2020.

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Before data tampering, the US has cooled over the last 90 years.

Hansen predicted the Arctic would be ice-free by 2018.

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Arctic sea ice volume is the highest in thirteen years.

Spreadsheet    Data

Hansen got every single one of his predictions exactly backwards, which is why Democrats and the left hail him as being a prophet.

My forecast for the end of June is that 2018 Arctic sea ice volume will be in fourth place behind 2004, 2003 and 2014.

The bad news keeps piling up for Arctic alarmists.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Sea surface temperatures around Greenland are record cold.

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The latest thaw on record in Greenland.

Meanwhile, climate alarmists continue to lie about Greenland, like they do about everything else.

“Nobody can eat 50 eggs”

Perhaps not, but this turtle just laid more than 40 of them.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

• George Orwell

Fox News and the Washington Examiner are pushing some rather spectacular climate idiocy these days. Worse garbage than the New York Times and CNN.

NASA’s chilling 30-year-old warning | Fox News

The next ‘cold’ war: America may be missing the boat in the Arctic

Meanwhile, back in the real world.  Arctic sea ice volume is the highest in the last thirteen years, and melt during the last two years was the slowest on record.

Spreadsheet    Data

On the 30th anniversary of James Hansen’s Congressional testimony, scientists agree he got it right.” 

Judgment on Hansen’s ’88 climate testimony: ‘He was right’ » Yale Climate Connections

It would be a pretty massive stretch to describe climate fraudsters Mann, Rahmstorf and Dessler as being scientists, but let’s take a look at what Hansen actually said at those hearings.  He predicted a large increase in the number of 90 and 100 degree days at Washington DC and Omaha, Nebraska.

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Below are the temperature records at the closest USHCN stations to Washington DC and Omaha, Nebraska.  Both show a decline in the number of 90 and 100 degree days.

Hansen was completely wrong, but in climate science being wrong is always right, and being right is always wrong.