Listen to Limbaugh. Could the moon landings and shuttle missions and
space
station be faked as well and just another socialist plot to drain taxpayer
money into their elite cause of Godless one world government?
ASA Scientist James Hansen Places Foot in Mouth on Global Warming?
Hansen Compounds Error at GISS
By captdallas2
Is review of federal agency press releases a bad thing? Dr. James
Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS),
has criticized the Bush administration in the past for alleged
censor****p of the scientific community. With the recent discover in
the US temperature averages prepared by GISS, Dr. Hansen made the
corrections and hastily posted an email to several journalists.
Steve McIntyre, an independent statistician that is known for
questioning the accuracy of the temperature record and statistical
method used with the data. Because of his concern Mr.McIntyre is
labeled a global warming skeptic. The discovery of the error was made
by McIntyre and following an email from McIntyre to GISS corrected.
After discovering Dr. Hansen's email days later, McIntyre posted this
in the Watt's Up With This blog.
The title and first paragraph of Dr. Hansen's email is as follows:
A Light On Upstairs?
Sorry to send another e-mail so soon. No need to read further unless
you are interested in temperature changes to a tenth of a degree over
the U.S. and a thousandth of a degree over the world.
And the concluding paragraphs:
Somehow the flaw in 2001-2007 U.S. data was advertised on the internet
and for two days I have been besieged by rants that I have wronged the
President, that I must "step down", or that I must "vanish". Hmm, I am
not very good at magic tricks.
My apologies if the quick response that I sent to Andy Revkin and
several other journalists, including the suggestion that it was a
tempest inside somebody's teapot dome, and that perhaps a light was
not on upstairs, was immoderate. It was not ad hominem, though.
Jim
In the norcal blog, McIntyre posted a lengthy response. One paragraph
of that response was particularly interesting:
I haven't seen the original letter and don't know who the comment was
about. However, it certainly sounds like an ad hominem remark and one
that is highly inappropriate for a federal civil servant. I have a
number of comments about other aspects of the letter.
While the scientific community ponders the significance of 0.1 to 0.15
degrees C in the US historical temperature averages in the grand
scheme of anthropogenic global warming. I wonder if the mainstream
media and Dr. Hansen are pondering the wisdom of review of press
release prior to dissemination?
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