SPOTLIGHT: Tomorrow, June 23rd is the 30th anniversary of James Hansen‘s historic climate testimony to a US Senate committee.
BIG PICTURE: Nine years after the 1988 event that triggered decades of climate change media coverage, the person who orchestrated the event was interviewed by PBS’s Frontline. Timothy Wirth, a prominent Democratic congressman, and one-term senator told PBS:
We knew there was this scientist at NASA, you know, who had really identified the human impact before anybody else had done so and was very certain about it. So we called him up and asked him if he would testify.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hadn’t even been established. It hadn’t yet written any of its reports describing an alleged climate consensus. Yet Wirth already believed there was a crisis.
That belief rested on a single scientist. Who was making claims no one else had yet made. Who was “very certain” his ideas were correct.
Wirth neglected to mention that the wider scientific community hadn’t yet examined Hansen’s ideas. At the beginning of his testimony, Hansen said his assertions were “based largely on recent studies” carried out with a team of seven others (my italics).
The paper describing those studies was submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research in January 1988 and was accepted in May. But it wasn’t published until the 20th of August – two months after Hansen delivered his testimony.
TOP TAKEAWAY: Journalists considered Hansen’s 1988 remarks credible. Even though he was an outlier. Even though the broader scientific community had had no opportunity to evaluate his work.
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James Hansen,Bill Nye,David Suzuki Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Bore all a bunch of Con-Men and Snake Oil Salesmen selling their fake product(Climate Change/Global Warming)to these gullible enough to beleive their malarkey
World War I is said to have been started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. What few people know is that initially the assassination was a failure. The Serb nationalist had not been able to position himself. After the failure, the assassin was at a café and just by chance the Archduke showed up.
So, if it wasn’t for the chance meeting at a café would World War I have happened? The answer is yes. At that time Europe was a tinder box filled with hostilities and secret alliances. If the Archduke had not been the assassinated something else would have triggered the war.
It is the same with global warming. The de-industrialization movement had amplified the protests against nuclear energy, but now they needed to act against fossil fuels. There was another group that wanted a means to expand government and provide an excuse for new taxes. When I was in college there was a book titled, “The Evil Machine.” It said that there was the means to replace cars with public transpiration and expressed a high level of frustration about that not happening. Making energy scarce and expensive would help force people out of cars. Not only did many who were influenced to the hippies of their own age consider our life style excessive, some liberals of the older generator agreed. I remember friends of my parents often making statements of guilt for living the middle class standard of living they were enjoying. Scarce and expensive energy would force a reduction of this life style.
Global warming was the perfect answer to many liberal issues, so if Hansen hadn’t started the movement, some else would have.
So in 1988 the “scientific consensus” was 1 . At least Hansen was around to see the
truth .
Except he, like all the other so-called climate scientists, refuses to admit the truth.
It’s not a scientific consensus, it’s an unscientific confidence scam. I’ll bet most activists understand this but they’ll carry on, because the con job still has traction with those who will not see.