I don?t agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic?

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page?and have to say thanks. nice read?

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

It is just about as meaningless as handing the Dixie Chicks a grammy for calling Bush names

Whatever. You’re not seriously suggesting that Hansen isn’t one of the world’s leading climatologists, are you?

Heinz award? You might as well call it the Kerry award …

It is just about as meaningless as handing the Dixie Chicks a grammy for calling Bush names …

Sorry you’re seriously misinformed.

The American Association of State Climatologists (AASC) recognize the George Taylor and the Oregon Climate Service at OSU’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences as a certifed ARSCO (American Association of State Climatologists Recognized State Climate Office).

From the AASC State Climatologist webiste
http://www.stateclimate.org/arsco/

To become an ARSCO, a state agency must secure a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the National Climatic Data Center. The MOA shall be between the NCDC and the host institution. The Director of NCDC shall sign on behalf of the government and a senior management official must sign for the state. The MOA may be established once the AASC has officially recognized a state agency as an ARSCO.

For the AASC to officially recognize a state agency as an ARSCO, three basic documents must be submitted to the AASC President:

1. A document that details current and planned activities that demonstrate a willingness and commitment to meet the ARSCO Terms of Reference.

2. A letter of support from the state’s Regional Climate Center Director.

3. A letter of support from at least one National Weather Service Forecast Office serving the state. Once the documents have been received and approved, the AASC President will notify the state agency and the NCDC.

Should read:

You mean George Taylor as in the guy who claims to hold a position which, actually, you know, doesn’t exist?

You mean George Taylor as in the guy who claims to hold a position which, actually, you know, exist?

Gee I wonder why we don’t trust his word then?

- B.A. in Physics and Mathematics with highest distinction
- M.S. in Astronomy
- Ph.D. in Physics

Here are Dr. Hansen’s recent publications. Note the names of peer-reviewed journals:

Global temperature change. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.)

Sea-ice and North Atlantic climate response to CO2-induced warming and cooling conditions. (J. Glaciol)

Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci)

Present day atmospheric simulations using GISS ModelE: Comparison to in-situ, satellite and reanalysis data. (J. Climate)

Role of tropospheric ozone increases in 20th century climate change. (J. Geophys)

Solar and anthropogenic forcing of tropical hydrology. (Geophys. Res. Lett)

A slippery slope: How much global warming constitutes “dangerous anthropogenic interferenced”? An editorial essay. (Clim. Change)

Earth’s energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications. (Science)

Efficacy of climate forcings. (J. Geophys)

Distant origins of Arctic black carbon: A Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE experiment. (J. Geophys. Res)

Amplification of surface temperature trends and variability in the tropical atmosphere. (Science)

Carbonaceous aerosols in the industrial era. (Eos Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union)

Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci)

Greenhouse gas growth rates. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci)

Monitoring of aerosol forcing of climate from space: Analysis of measurement requirements. (J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer)

Black carbon emissions in the United Kingdom during the past four decades: An empirical analysis. (Atmos. Environ.)

Large historical changes of fossil-fuel black carbon aerosols. (Geophys. Res. Lett)

Behavior of tropopause height and atmospheric temperature in models, reanalyses, and observations: Decadal changes. (J. Geophys. Res.)

Global atmospheric black carbon inferred from AERONET. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci)

Climate simulations for 1951-2050 with a coupled atmosphere-ocean model. (J. Climate)

Changing trends in sulfur emissions in Asia: Implications for acid deposition. (Environ. Sci. Tech)

Global warming continues. (Science)

Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations. (J. Geophys. Res)

A brighter future. (Climatic Change)

Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India. (Science)

General circulation model simulations of recent cooling in the east-central United States. (J. Geophys. Res)

The notion that Dr. Hansen is not qualified in this is beyond ridiculous. Those who say so are not only incapable of understading the science, but are obviously not even able to make evaluations of even the most basic nature. Too bad they also don’t realize that they look like total idiots.

That’s special pleading, and you know it.

Anything that generates deadly waste that lasts for hundred of thousands of years cannot be called safe!

We did not inherit such waste, so what gives us the right to leave future generations with such waste?

Sheesh…

“Global Warming doesn’t exist. Rape this world, rape this Earth. Take everything you want from it because you know what, it doesn’t matter. We’re not here for very long. Christ is coming to take us away from Earth. So cut down our trees, use all our oil. Take advantage of everything that the world has to offer.”

His statement (not sure who it is) may be the most ignorant, irresponsible, and insane that I’ve ever heard.

Once again, you’ve outdone yourself and shown for the ignorant fool you are: Study of the Earth’s climate in one of the areas of expertise of NASA.

I cannot believe you actually wrote that…

And whatever that astronaut did has no bearing on NASA’s, Hansen’s expertise or body of work, don’t be ridiculous.

Father Staudimeier, [...] was very adament about the tendencies of those who, upon receiving one degree, feel they are expert in everything.

He! This sounds so much like you.

I have also realised you have an uncanny ability for avoiding even a fleeting introspection.

In so doing, these individuals muddle not only unfamiliar topics, but tarnish their credibility in their own field.

You are one of those people who can never take their own advice. Except you muddled a familiar topic, i.e., the NASA’s role in the study of our planet’s climate.

The only scientific statement that can be made is that we are achieving an overall lower entropic state – that’s all.

First, he was not making a scientific statement. It is obvious he is using scientific facts to lend support to a -basically- theological argument.

Second, are we supposed to be impressed by your bloviation? (yes, I just made up the word).

A true scientist should be embarassed by such comments.

Not that you would know a true scientist if you ran head-on into one wearing a lab coat and bottle-bottom glasses.

Jason, I have come to understand isn’t a troll per se, but he is nuts. He basically believes “A State of Fear” which calls the whole Global Warming thing the product of a vast liberal conspiracy to control the world. Its why I normally counter him with “Don’t give me science, give me science fiction!”

From wikipedia:

Dr. Hansen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and he received the prestigious Heinz Environment Award for his research on global warming in 2001 along with many others

So, on the one hand you are an idiot, on the other, you are still an idiot. Global warming just happens to have been Dr Hansen’s field of research for the last couple of decades, and further NASA itself is not dedicated purely to rocketry – a far bigger, though less glamour filled part of its ambit is studying the climate. This has been ever since they figured out that knowing what the weather would be like would be kind of handy.

You’ve got the Crud, too, Zooey, huh? I’ve been on the Nyquil for over a week now. The doctor says it’ll be another 2-6 days before it finally clears out.