Mar
James Hansen is a Nutter
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a front-page story by John M. Broder on climategate, “Scientists Take Steps to Defend Climate Work.” Their slant was as you would suspect. Today, Myron Ebell took a shot at them an article at FoxNews.com that destroys the Times’ piece. Read “The New York Times Fights Back Against the Climate-gate Scandal” in its entirety, but we’re going to highlight a few paragraphs we liked here. We admit it, we just like this section because it calls James Hansen a nutter.
“Nutters” is English (and Schmidt is English) slang equivalent to “nut” in the sense of crazy person. Well, Schmidt should know—his boss is the director of GISS, Dr. James E. Hansen. Hansen is widely considered to be the leading scientific promoter of global warming alarmism and as such is a highly political animal. He is also increasingly kooky and extreme.
Hansen claimed a few years ago that the Bush Administration was censoring him. It turned out he had given over 1,300 interviews during the Bush years! Hansen predicted over twenty years ago that much of Manhattan would be under water by now as the result of sea level rise caused by global warming.
Last year, Hansen, a federal employee, was arrested for protesting at a coal mine in West Virginia. He has endorsed industrial sabotage as justified by the climate crisis we are facing and said that oil company executives should be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity and nature.”
So Schmidt has it right: the nutters are in control–of the global warming alarmist agenda. I’ll be waiting for The New York Times to publish that story.
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In the FOX story this sentence: “Hansen predicted over twenty years ago that much of Manhattan would be under water by now as the result of sea level rise caused by global warming.” has a hot link to an admittedly alarmist story in Salon, by a Suzy Hansen, not James Hansen. The word “Manhattan” does not appear in that story.
OK, I stand corrected, sort of. The article by Suzy is an interview with Bob Reiss who said James Hansen said something to that affect. But Reiss is quoting a conversation from memory that happened ten years before. If you want to convince me James Hansen made such specific predictions, you will need a better source. I am not saying Reiss is wrong, just that you need a more reliable source.
It’s a worry – the ‘nutters’ are coalescing into a life force ‘Nutters against Sanity. I just posted an article from the Washington Post and Professor Paul Ehrlich is running the campaig too, but he has form for previous ridiculous scare campaigns.
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/99/Population-Control.htm
Professor Paul Erlich, author of the 1968 best-seller, “The Population Bomb.” In that book, Erlich predicted major food shortages in the U.S. and by “the 1970s. . . hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Erlich forecasted the starvation of 65 million Americans between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Professor Erlich saw England in more desperate situation, saying, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
Yes – it’s true, I’m speaking as a ghost from the barren wasteleand of the UK.