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Always To The Right on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:03:16 PM
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor “embarrassed” by his global warming work
Washington DC, Jan 27th 2009:
NASA warming scientist James Hansen, one of former Vice-President Al
Gore’s closest allies in the promotion of man-made global warming
fears, is being publicly rebuked by his former supervisor at NASA.
Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, the
former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming
fear soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and
declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate
claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon joins the rapidly
growing ranks of international scientists abandoning the promotion of
man-made global warming fears.
“I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree
that global warming is man made,” Theon wrote to the Minority Office at
the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009. “I was,
in effect, Hansen’s supervisor because I had to justify his funding,
allocate his resources, and evaluate his results,” Theon,
the former Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA
Headquarters and former Chief of the Atmospheric Dynamics &
Radiation Branch explained.
“Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official
agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to
forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus
embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in
1988 in his testimony before Congress,” Theon wrote. [Note:
NASA scientist James Hansen has created worldwide media frenzy with his
dire climate warning, his call for trials against those who dissent
against man-made global warming fear, and his claims that he was
allegedly muzzled by the Bush administration despite doing 1,400 on-the-job media interviews! - See: Don't Panic Over Predictions of Climate Doom - Get the Facts on James Hansen - UK Register: Veteran climate scientist says 'lock up the oil men' - June 23, 2008 & UK
Guardian: NASA scientist calls for putting oil firm chiefs on trial for
'high crimes against humanity' for spreading doubt about man-made
global warming - June 23, 2008 ]
Theon declared “climate models are useless.” “My own belief
concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not
realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very
important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate
poorly or completely omit,” Theon explained. “Furthermore, some
scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model
results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in
the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted
making their work transparent so that it can be replicated
independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how
science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for
using climate model forecasts to determine public policy,” he added.