Thursday, January 15, 2009

Climate Cultists

On January 14, 2009 (Wednesday), Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. of MIT awarded his "bone-headed move-of-the-year" trophy to GISS/NASA's notorious climate cultist Dr. James E. Hansen of Columbia University. As cited in ICECAP, after consecutively forecasting that 2006, 2007, 2008 would register as "warmest years on record," Dr. Hansen has now --despite mountainous evidence-- plumped for the same ludicrous scenario in 2009: "It seems ... that a new global temperature record will be set ... despite the moderate negative effect of reduced solar irradiance."

Hansen's evidence? Absent any valid long- or short-term data whatsoever, Team GISS [for Goddard Institute of Space Science] has apparently begun "manually adjusting" satellite reports without acknowledgement or scientific rationale. This means that Dr. James E. Hansen et al. are cheats, engaging in purposeful fraud to promote alarmist scenarios for partisan political gain (grant monies). By no coincidence, fellow warmists at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have just bestowed on Hansen their Rossby Research Medal "for outstanding contributions to climate modeling ... in the public arena."

As Pielke and other disenchanted colleagues note, such recognition grimly subverts all aspects of the scientific enterprise. Hansen's spurious Rossby Medal not only "encourages manipulating data to keep the warmist hoax alive ... (with its) grant gravy-train" but marks "another sad ... embarrassment for the once-great (American Meteorological Ssociety), which has lost its way."

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