Father Of Global Warming Admits: It Used To Be Hotter Than It Is Now
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Science: To listen to the climate change alarmist community, one would think that Earth has never been so warm as it is now. But it’s been warmer, and sea levels have been higher, facts that the leader of the movement acknowledges.
James Hansen, the famed NASA scientist who stirred the climate scare when in 1988 he told a Senate committee that “global warming” — yes, he used those words — “is already happening now,” has never backed off his claims, despite the fact that he’s been demonstrably wrong. No one this side of Al Gore has had a larger impact on trafficking in fear and trying so hard to sow panic.
The narrative since that day in 1988 is that Earth is entering a dangerous warm era created by man’s carbon dioxide emissions. Every heat wave, cold snap, drought, hurricane, heavy snow, torrential rain, and change in sea level has been supposedly caused by man. And all are allegedly unprecedented events.
Except they’re not. It’s been warmer, and extreme weather has visited us before, all in a time long before man began to drive cars and operate power plants that helped move him from an almost primitive existence to a modern one.
Hansen has even admitted this.
“The last interglacial period, 120,000 years ago, that’s the last time it was warmer than today, sea level was 6 to 9 meters higher,” he said in an interview with online magazine
Yale Environment 360.
So it has been warmer, and sea levels have been higher. And those conditions were entirely natural. Yet the alarmists want us to believe that the predicted warmth of today —
which has yet to occur — is man-caused. How do they know? And why do they never mention that we are leaving the Little Ice Age and entering another interglacial period, an era that should be warmer as we gain distance from the cold period?
The
Watts Up With That blog points out another hole in the narrative: While implying that we’re headed for another 6-to-9-meters increase in sea level in the coming — or just-arrived — interglacial period, “Hansen failed to say” that “paleoclimatological studies have indicated that it took a number of millennia for sea levels to rise those 6 to 9 meters when temperatures were warmer than today.”
Yet we’ve been told until the alarmists have no more hot air to exhale that we are running out of time to act, and maybe already have.
The Hansens of our world will never give in, though. He told Yale Environment 360 that “we conclude … that the timescale for ice-sheet disintegration is probably a lot shorter than has been assumed in the intergovernmental discussions.”
Watts Up With That blogger Bob Tisdale says nuts to that: “Even proponents of the hypothesis of human-induced global warming found the recent Hansen study (Ice melt, sea-level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming could be dangerous) to be nonsense. Even the title of the paper includes the oft-used weasel words ‘could be.’ ”
Meanwhile, Anthony Watts himself says that Hansen “seems interested in
promoting alarmism at all costs. There’s been a whiff of this throughout his entire career, but this latest paper is just too much to take seriously.”
Perhaps the best analysis, though, is from science blogger David Appell, who says that the canonization of the Hansen study is just more
barnyard droppings, and the paper itself “goes out on a limb that the science can’t necessarily support.”
Hansen has been out on that skinny limb for almost 30 years, and it keeps breaking. He just hopes no one is noticing the duct tape and paper clips he’s rigged up to hide the damage.
