Russ Steele
Jim Hansen, NASA scientist, has been on the forefront of the global warming issue since he briefed Congress on the issue in 1988. He has stayed in the news by accepting a $250,000 grant from the Heinz Foundation, and advising presidential candidate John Kerry on global warming, and more recently claimed to be silenced by the Bush administration. But, his latest move will most likely be his scientific legacy. He is rewriting climate history by adjusting the US climate records from 1900 forward to more closely match the growth curve in CO2.
Hansen's rational? The folks who recorded the temperatures across the nation since 1900 were just unaware that their readings were going to mess up his whole global warming argument. They were just doing their job as weather observers, not concerned about the politics of their readings. But, since the recordings they made for the last 100 years do not match the increase in CO2, Jim Hansen has decided to adjust these historic measurements to more closely parallel the increase in CO2. After all, those early temperature recorders just did not know about the great danger of CO2 and global warming. So now NASA is adjusting the record of these thousands of dedicated weather observers to fit Jim Hansen’s religious preferences -- global warming by CO2. Details here.
