http://joemiller.us/2012/08/busted-leake...
Quote from that article, "But in 2009, as the thermometer hit record lows in America, he and other climate scientists panicked in a flurry of emails: 'Skeptics will be all over us – the world is really cooling, the models are no good.' ".
Jimmy boy is in panic mode.
Yes he is. He finally paid attention to NASA's own satellite temperature readings, the ones that prove, even to a warmist nutter like James Hansen, that there has been no statistically significant warming for the last 20 years. James Hansen's explanation for the lack of Warming: it is the cooling effect of the smog caused by the burning of coal in China!
So the cure for global warming caused by burning coal is to ...burn more coal! Glad you cleared that up, James.
If he is right, what this appears to prove is that Global Warming from 1975 to 1995 was caused by the Clean Air movement in the West. Clean air from burning coal cleanly in modern furnaces with filtration and catalytic convertors rid us of the smog and acid rain but let more sunlight reach the Earth. If that is price of clean air, then so be it. I'll take the balmy weather over Soot, Acid Rain and Lung Cancer any day.
Global Warming is not caused by CO2, it is caused by clean air.
Talk about an inconvenient Truth for the Warmist brigade.
Burning coal produces sulfate aerosols, especially if there are no emission controls. If you burn coal, without emission controls, at a constrant rate, initially the aerosols will accumulate rapidly and then reach steady state, because sulfur dioxide has a short residence time. But carbon dioxide has a much longer residence time, and accumulates at a rate proportional to the emissions. Similar to what happened after the depression of the 1930s, the effect is initial cooling, but more warming later on.
Nature trumps the IPCC again .
yeah>>>>>
James Hansen is claiming that GHG forcing is falling below IPCC scenarios.
" The moderate uncertainties in radiative calculations affect the scenarios and actual greenhouse gas results equally and thus do not alter the conclusion that the actual forcing falls below that of the IPCC scenarios."
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/2013/03/hansens-mea-culpa-says-man-made-global.html
But Gary F says this isn't what he is saying at all.
"How would you know what Hansen said? Oh, yeah, you wouldn't since you have never read anything by anyone who actually knows anything about global climate."
So is Hansen saying IPCC predicted forcing is too high or not?
