Uh-oh...looks like
someone did a basic Google search and now realizes she is screwed.
So you're saying the bet is on. Excellent. I'll hold you to that.
Being that Pusstriot here has once more failed in his quest to locate his balls (magnification and tweezers were not sufficient), I'll have to help him out.
This is what Pusstriot thinks his irrefutable source is, either this Salon piece, or one of the conspiracy blogs quoting it.
Stormy weather
In that piece, Bob Reiss says in a phone interview with Salon:
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While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, "If what you're saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?" He looked for a while and was quiet and didn't say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, "Well, there will be more traffic." I, of course, didn't think he heard the question right. Then he explained, "The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water.
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Slam dunk for Pusstriot? Nope. That's not a quote of Hansen. That's a quote of what Bob Reiss remembered about an 13-year-old conversation at that particular instant. And Bob Reiss later stated that he goofed in his recollection.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110126_SingingInTheRain.pdf
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Michaels also has the facts wrong about a 1988 interview of me by Bob Reiss, in which Reiss asked me to speculate on changes that might happen in New York City in 40 years assuming CO2 doubled in amount. Michaels has it as 20 years, not 40 years, with no mention of doubled CO2. Reiss verified this fact to me, but he later sent the message: "I went back to my book and re-read the interview I had with you. I am embarrassed to say that although the book text is correct, in remembering our original conversation, during a casual phone interview with a Salon magazine reporter in 2001 I was off in years. What I asked you originally at your office window was for a prediction of what Broadway would look like in 40 years, not 20. But when I spoke to the Salon reporter 10 years later - probably because I'd been watching the predictions come true, I remembered it as a 20 year question." So give Michaels a pass on this one -- assume that he reads Salon, but he did not check the original source, Reiss' book.
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The actual quote by Hansen was not "20 years from now" (now being 1988). It was "40 years after a doubling". As a doubling of CO2 hasn't happened yet, the 40-year clock hasn't even started ticking yet.
Oh, Pusstriot also lied about all of NYC supposedly being under water, as the statement only covered a freeway along the river.
So, that's the objective truth. Pusstriot will have a hard time trying to weasel away, as the people he claims are his reliable sources are the ones saying he was lying.
Thus, by the terms of the bet that Pusstriot accepted, he must to admit to the board that he was lying, that I was telling the truth, and that he has spent years as the devoted brainless acolyte of a liars' cult.
Pusstriot, see what happens when you refuse to look at non-cult sources? Take a lesson. Be like the rational people, and look at every source.
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