Ian, you consistently go with the dingbats at WUWT, none of which do real research, while ignoring the people who are doing the nuts and bolts of science. Why is that? What are you afraid of?
'what am I afraid of'? interesting question. I'll get back to it when I have time.
the short answer, in respect to analyzing climate science, is that I am afraid of being taken in by bloviating hack scientists that seem to be working to a preformed conclusion. the flip side is that I am afraid of missing out on interesting and new ways of looking at the data. I like and recognize smart people. McIntyre expresses the ideals of science more fully than just about anyone else out there. Willis is so smart that people have probably always considered him crazy because he is different. Hansen was once a great scientist, but he became an activist and lost his focus. Spencer, Mann and Jones are second rate. most of the climate scientists are either third rate, or hiding their light under a bushel to fit into the present paradigm.
No Hansen has always been a hack!
He used his activism to feed the AGW religion..
James Hansen - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American
adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at
Columbia University. Hansen is best known for his research in the field of
climatology, his testimony on
climate change to congressional committees in 1988 that helped raise broad awareness of
global warming, and his advocacy of action to
avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years, Hansen has become an
activist for action to mitigate the effects of climate change, which on a few occasions has led to his arrest.
After graduate school, Hansen continued his work with
radiative transfer models, attempting to understand the
Venusian atmosphere. Later he applied and refined these models to understand the
Earth's atmosphere, in particular, the effects that
aerosols and
trace gases have on Earth's climate. Hansen's development and use of
global climate models has contributed to the further understanding of the
Earth's climate. In 2009 his first book,
Storms of My Grandchildren, was published.
[1] In 2012 he presented a 2012 TED Talk: Why I must speak out about climate change.
[2]
From 1981 to 2013, he was the head of the
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
New York City, a part of the
Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland.
He currently directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
[3] The program is working to continue to "connect the dots" from advancing basic climate science to promoting public awareness to advocating policy actions.
Early life and education[edit]
Hansen was born in
Denison,
Iowa to James Ivan Hansen and Gladys Ray Hansen.
[4] He was trained in physics and astronomy in the
space science program of
James Van Allen at the
University of Iowa. He obtained a
B.A. in Physics and Mathematics with highest distinction in 1963, an
M.S. in Astronomy in 1965 and a
Ph.D. in Physics, in 1967, all three degrees from the University of Iowa. He participated in the NASA graduate traineeship from 1962 to 1966 and, at the same time, between 1965 and 1966, he was a visiting student at the Institute of Astrophysics at the
University of Kyoto and in the Department of Astronomy at the
University of Tokyo. Hansen then began work at the
Goddard Institute for Space Studies in 1967.
[5]
A rather formidible resume of one of the most respected scientists in the world.