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Sgt Relic on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:00:32 AM
Let’s say you are the considered the United States’ leading climate scientist, in fact, you are considered such a big brain that they put you in charge of something like the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies(GISS). And also imagine that you make a public statement concerning the weather that is so wrong that the Telegraph.co.uk describes it as a “surreal scientific blunder” and that the blunder is so blatant that not one, but two lesser lights in the climate science community are able to find this gigantic error in less time than it took your 2nd grade teacher to find the error in your 2 times tables.
Add to that, that this is NOT the first time you have made an extraordinary claim about record temperatures that were just flatly wrong. This is same Dr. Hansen who, just 30 years ago, said we would all freeze to death, and more recently had to retract his statement that the 90’s were the warmest decade when it turned out to be the 30’s. Hey! He only missed it by 60 years!
Would you expect to keep your job?
Well, you and I might expect to get sacked but not if you are Dr. James Hansen, and you and “nobel lariat” Al Gore are tight buds. [Small N for de-emphasis] Little mistakes like claiming last October was the warmest on record, and we’ve been keeping records for a long time now, despite such unscientific visual data in October, as snow in South Florida and London, you would probably not even be called to account for it if your employer is the U.S. Government.
If the cover afforded you by powerful friends with big houses, private jets, and money to burn, which may become useful since the planet is actually getting colder, you can always count on backup from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, a highly trained former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science, according to the Telegraph story. Why you ask is a railway engineer in charge of the world’s most prestigious climate change committee? Well, the simple answer is: I have NO idea! Hey! It's the UN!
My guess is that these two characters are working up a Jon Lovitz style routine based on his Tommy Flannagan, pathological liar routine. You remember how this goes.
Tommy: [Dr. Hansen] Hello, I’m Dr. James Hansen and I’m the top guy at GISS and I know everything about temperatures. Yeah, that’s it. …Ehhhh, who am I kiddin’? I’m the smartest guy in the world! I’m here to tell you that it’s getting’ warm…er,eh; it’s going to get hot enough to fry the planet! Yeah that’s it, that’s the ticket! You’re all gonna die by next wee…eh, eh, eh, 2030! Yeah that’s right, 2030! But we have to do something about it by next week! No time to wait!
Below is thought to be a candid snapshot of Dr. Hansen waiting to make his announcement to the press in Honolulu, it might have been Miami, but it was one of those tropical locations. Also pictured is believed to be Dr. Aoki Kishiaka, another member of the IPCC without any climate science credentials. Dr. Kishiaka is the Chairman of the largest chain of Sushi restaurants in Japan. Although not covered in the article, it is thought that he was delivering a paper on the impact of climate change on the oceans. He postulates that rising sea temperatures will pre-cook the fish making Sashimi impossible to produce. (Ok, I made that last part up)
The public in the UK is starting to wakeup to the global scam but the good ole’ U.S. is still trying to beat this dead horse. A dishonest scientist, regardless of credentials, is not credible and should be removed before he creates any more public hysteria. The climate change people have missed the gravy train and it is now unloading at a bank or manufacturing company near you. Compared to the economic conditions in this country, global warming is just not scary enough! In fact, as we anticipate becoming homeless it may become a good idea.
It is currently 39 degrees here in Chesapeake, which is not a record but is lower than average, and this writer is feeling the cold. Brrrr! Sarge would appreciate it if you would all drive a few extra miles and breath really fast today. Maybe if we can get the CO2 level up I won’t freeze to death.
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