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Top NASA scientist caught fudging global warming data

Posted 18 Nov 2008 in environment, global warming

This Investor’s Business Daily article gets right to the heart of what I’ve been saying all along regarding the anthropogenic “global warming/climate change” hysteria: the debate ISN’T over…even among top scientists. Unless, of course, they’re cooking the books for Al Gore.

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and global warming alarmist, is Al Gore’s favorite scientist, part of that mythical global warming “consensus” that says we are doomed and man is the culprit. On Nov. 10 he announced that last month was the hottest October on record and we were still doomed.

Dr. Hansen has not only become global warming’s Robin to Al Gore’s Batman, he has also been a critic of the “deniers,” those who dare to insist that the debate is far from over, and that the computer models used can’t even predict the past, much less the future.

Hansen has said in the past that “heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be ‘tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.’ ” They pay for self-serving studies, and any scientist who disagrees with Gore is obviously on the take.

Christopher Booker, writing in the U.K. Telegraph, reports that Hansen apparently has been spreading disinformation all his own to come up with a conclusion that flies in the face of empirical evidence we can see with our own eyes.

Hansen’s claim of the hottest October ever came after reports of unseasonal snow and record low temperatures.

China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever.”

The Swiss lowlands last month got the most snow for any October since records began.

Zurich received 20 centimeters, breaking the record of 14 cm set in 1939. Ocala, Fla., experienced the second-lowest temperature recorded for October since 1850.

Elsewhere in the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th warmest October in 114 years. So how did Hansen claim it was the warmest?

Booker writes: “The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.”

As Booker reports, the glaring error was picked up by two intrepid climate bloggers — U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That and Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit.

McIntyre is the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the infamous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show Earth’s temperature as stable until man started building SUVs, causing a sharp upward spike.

Caught with its pants down, the Goddard Institute started juggling its books. To compensate for the carrying over of the bogus temperature readings, it claimed to have discovered a new “hotspot” in the Arctic — in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice 30% more extensive than at the same time last year. Ooops.

If Dr. Hansen thinks oil company executives should be tried for crimes against humanity for being skeptical about global warming claims and seeking the truth, what should the penalty be for him and his ilk? He is yelling fire in a crowded planet.

The Goddard now says it got the data from another body and didn’t have the resources to verify the data. In the computer world, there’s a phrase for this — garbage in, garbage out. The institute’s figures are one of four data sets used by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to come up with its doomsday scenarios.

And now, just in time for Obama’s video address to the Governors’ Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, preliminary data from a long-term study shows another side effect of higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere: increased growth in trees. Surprise! The Earth adapts! (h/t: Say Anything)

The 10-year experiment in Oak Ridge showed that higher levels of carbon dioxide enhanced productivity of sweetgum trees – at least for a while. Absorption of carbon dioxide and conversion to wood, leaves, roots and sugars took place at an increased rate.

“This is important because if forests across the Earth absorb carbon from the atmosphere a bit faster, the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustions won’t build up quite as fast, and the greenhouse effect causing climate change will be slowed,” Norby said, emphasizing that the change won’t be stopped.

The increased productivity occurred mostly below ground, the scientist said. Instead of making more wood in the trunk, the trees enriched with carbon dioxide made more roots, he said. These fine roots only live for about a year and then deposit their carbon into the soil, he said.

Those damn trees could rob Obama of his 5 million new “green jobs”!
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