NASA SCIENTIST WANTS TO SUE OIL COMPANIES

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A man who spent his entire educational experience from his B.A. to Phd on the study of Physics, with a Masters in Astronomy, wants to have Congress bring charges against the oil industry similar to what was done to the cigarette industry!
He should have a law degree, because of the doors he is trying to open to class action suits for trial lawyers.
How this metamorphosis, from physicist to climate guru and expert took place, I am not sure. But the fact that he knew enough physics to be an asset to the Space Program, does not make him the expert on climatology that he and the leftists in that follow him want you to believe.

"Many of the temperature monitoring stations in China, Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are in urban areas (such as Shanghai or Beijing)," observes Canadian Steven McIntyre. This will/can produce hotter temperatures, yet some of the major trackers of the data from these countries, including the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, make no attempt to adjust for monitor placement errors. In any event, for some reason "the U.S. history has a rather minimal (warming) trend if any since the 1930s," while the ROW [rest of the world] has a very pronounced trend since the 1930s".

His own words indicate that he has always had an interest in global weather patterns, but this does not make him an expert!
He had this to say at an early stage of his career: "One of my research interests is radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, especially interpreting remote sounding of the earth's atmosphere and surface from satellites. Such data, appropriately analyzed, may provide one of our most effective ways to monitor and study global change on the earth. The hardest part is trying to influence the nature of the measurements obtained, so that the key information can be obtained.

"I am also interested in the development and application of global numerical models for the purpose of understanding current climate trends and projecting humans' potential impacts on climate. The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it".

So with this in mind, he will sit before a Congressional committee, and say this today: "I call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer". This fool equates global warming with genocide!And to add insult to our intelligence, he said in June,2007, that a global warming tipping point is just a decade away". Scare tactics replacing facts, perhaps!
If you follow the global warming debate, one thing you "know" is that to even call it a "debate" is to whisk yourself away to the land of the Flat Earth Society and Holocaust deniers and to be on the take from Big Carbon. Another is that nine of the ten warmest years recorded in the U.S. lower 48 since 1880 have occurred since 1995, with the very hottest being 1998.The real 15 hottest years are spread over seven decades. Eight occurred before the chief "greenhouse gas," atmospheric carbon dioxide, began its sharp rise; seven occurred afterwards.

The facts do not back up his assertions. The hottest year since 1884 was the year 1934, long before green house gasses were known much less studied! source: Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Ultimately the greatest importance of all of this is that it strongly appears to substantiate the intuitive belief that, with scientist-politician Hansen at the helm the GISS, whose data are far more important to modeling global temperatures than it lets on, is not a neutral collector and disseminator of statistics but rather a politicized mouthpiece.


Before Congress or any trial lawyer tries to sue the oil industry for global warming, they had better read the material published by Canadian Steven McIntire's.
"Many of the temperature monitoring stations in China, Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are in urban areas (such as Shanghai or Beijing)," observes McIntyre. This can produce hotter temperatures, yet some of the major trackers of the data from these countries, including the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, make no attempt to adjust for monitor placement errors. In any event, for some reason "the U.S. history has a rather minimal (warming) trend if any since the 1930s," while the ROW [rest of the world] has a very pronounced trend since the 1930s".
If Hansen wants to sue anyone he might try suing Communist China, Or India the worst polluters of the atmosphere, who just happen to be exempt from Kyoto Protocols.