Thread: Are Dr. Hansen's predictions a lot like New Year's resolutions?

http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2008/06/gret-moments-in.html

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2658

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5581
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2008/01/chartmanship.html

http://crowhill.net/blog/?p=4267

Yea, they're all over the place, and in the end they never come to fruition.

No-one's referenced any of his actual work here. I haven't seen any that supports what's being asserted against him.

Here's a prediction made before Pinatubo[1], for example.

'The model predicts a return to record warm levels in the later 1990s' - 1997 and 1998 are 2 of the 10 hottest years on record. The others are 2001-2008. Pretty good projection there.

Realclimate also covered his 1988 projections[2]

Yes.

James Hansens's predictions are not meant to be taken seriously.

Much of the data that James Hansen uses is seriously flawed.

this is particularly true with respect to the data used to determine surface temperatures.

some of the thermometers that are used have been observed to be near local heat sources.

The thermometers have been discovered attached to chimneys, hot air exhausts of buildings, next to asphalt parking lots, and in one case, above a barbecue.

Data collected in such a sloppy manner produce artificially high readings for the temperature due to climate.

You mean the same Dr. Hansen that serves as Al Gore's science advisor and helped him out with his movie? The director of NASA GISS? His past predictions have been a bit less than accurate, it'll be fun to see what he comes up with next.