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February 16, 2006
Latest Gag
That very scary Drudge headline links to an equally scary story with eye-opening claims about polar icecap melting from a scientist named Jim Hansen -- who claims the Bush administration is trying to muzzle him. There are two issues here -- one involving the muzzling (something NASA disputes, pointing out Hansen's 20 year history of reckless outspokenness), and the other involving Hansen's reliability. Jim Hansen flawed methodology is taken to task here by an Autralian scientist who points out that the NASA GISS data is flawed because it measures "growing urban warming, not global climate change." World Climate Report notes Hansen's long history of distortion and outright lying, and asks why anyone should believe the guy: Sorry. Once a distortionist, always a distortionist.See also World Climate Report's "Hansen Revisited" for a longer catalog of "Hansen’s political activities, his recent findings, and his philosophy on the reporting on the global warming issue." World Climate Report seems to have done their homework on this guy, and he appears very unreliable. But I'll say this for him; he knows how to get a headline. (If only I could figure out how to get Bush to gag me....) posted by Eric on 02.16.06 at 09:38 PM
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You don't need to be gagged by Bush. As everyone seems to publish any wild claim all you need for a headline grabbing story is to say you were gagged. Facts just don't matter anymore. Jim · February 17, 2006 12:54 PM WEll, the icecaps are "melting fast" - uh, but they're the ones on Mars... John Anderson · February 19, 2006 03:54 AM I think Hansen is truthful. Also see this physicist's take. --- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan G. R. L. Cowan · February 19, 2006 05:58 PM |
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Supposedly he is a scientist... which means he "should" look at things logically. And logically, if the government was trying to muzzle him - we wouldn't be hearing about this would we.
Not only is he proclaiming his findings (such as they are) loud and clear... but he's also free to move about the country. He hasn't been grabbed at midnight and sent off to jail and held incommunicado - nor have any newspapers had stories pulled by mysterious government agents...
However, it makes a nice headline doesn't it. Makes you think someone is trying to keep something from you. Until you realize that none of the bad things he's talking about have come to pass in getting the story out there (except maybe NASA telling him they don't want to be part of his wacko theories).