Thursday, June 16, 2016

30th Anniversary of Hansen’s First Big Forecast Failure

 

Steve Goddard

Thirty years ago, James Hansen made some spectacularly poor global warming predictions before Congress.

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Hansen predicted two degrees global warming by 2006.

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He was off by a factor of ten. Earth warmed about 0.2 degrees from June 1986 to June 2006.

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Hansen predicted 3 or 4 degrees of US warming between 2010 and 2020

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The US has seen little or no warming since 1986.

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Hansen predicted a huge increase in the number of hot days at Omaha, Nebraska and Washington, DC.

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The exact opposite has occurred. Both places have seen a decline in the number of hot days.

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Climate scientists have no idea what they are talking about, and their CO2 superstition is not based on science.

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