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(ames Hansen*s +ormer %ASA Super&isor ,eclares Himsel- a S.eptic / Say01m)arrassed %ASA0

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Posted $y #arc #orano 7 8:59 P# 1 7 #arc;#orano See: Senator !nho-e*s ?ouu)e 'lip on Hansen*s -ormer super&isor:@

Wasington &C(%ASA warming scientist (ames Hansen4 one o- -ormer ViPresident Al Gore*s closest allies in the promotion o- man/made glo)al warm

is )eing pu)licly re)u.ed )y his -ormer super&isor at %ASA=

Retired senior %ASA atmospheric scientist ,r= (ohn S= heon4 the -ormer supo- (ames Hansen4 %ASA*s &ocal man/made glo)al warming -ears soothsayerpu)licly declared himsel- a s.eptic and declared that Hansen em)arrassed %with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was was ne&er muCCled=BDoins the rapidly growing ran.s o- international scientists a)andoning the proo- anthropogenic glo)al warming -ears= >See# $%S% Senate Minority e'ort $More ()an *+, -nternational Scientists .issent /ver Man0Made Global W2laims& SeeProminent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm Mis

Gore laments 1lobal !armin1 efforts# 3-3ve failed badly3 0 Was)in1ton 4osNovember 667 8,,9 0

! appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that glo)warming is man/made4B heon wrote to the #inority E--ice at the 1n&ironmPu)lic "or.s 'ommittee on (anuary F4 2556= ! was4 in e--ect4 Hansens sup)ecause ! had to Dusti-y his -unding4 allocate his resources4 and e&aluate his rdid not ha&e the authority to gi&e him his annual per-ormance e&aluation4B -ormer 'hie- o- the 'limate Processes Research Program at %ASA HeadIuar-ormer 'hie- o- the Atmospheric ,ynamics J Radiation $ranch eplained= :Here are t)e results a Goo1le Sc)olar searc) on ()eon%0()eon3s com'letcorres'ondence to E4W re'rinted at t)e end of t)is re'ort% ;

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Hansen was ne&er muCCled e&en though he &iolated %ASAs o--icial agencyon climate -orecasting i=e=4 we did not .now enough to -orecast climate chanman.inds e--ect on itM= Hansen thus em)arrassed %ASA )y coming out with o- glo)al warming in F699 in his testimony )e-ore 'ongress4B heon wrote= NASA scientist


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the (ulyAugust 2559 issue o- Launch #agaCine= %ASA should )e at the -othe collection o- scienti-ic e&idence and de)un.ing the current hysteria o&er hcaused4 or Anthropogenic Glo)al "arming AG"M= Un-ortunately4 it is )ecoanother agency caught up in the politics o- glo)al warming4 or worse4 politiciscience4B 'unningham wrote=

>Note# ()eon @oins many current and former NASA scientists in dissentin1man0made climate fears% A small sam'lin1 includes# Aeros'ace en1ineer a')ysicist .r% Mic)ael Griffin7 t)e former to' administrator of NASA7 AtmScientist .r%


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is challenging warming -ears4 and added that the science )ehind glo)al warmstill )e too sha.y to warrant cap/and/trade legislation=B #ore e&idence that twarming -ear machine is )rea.ing down= Russian scientists reDected the &erycar)on dioide may )e responsi)le -or glo)al warmingB=An American PhysiSociety editor conceded thata considera)le presenceB o- scienti-ic s.eptics !nternational team o- scientists countered the U% !P''4 declaring: %ature4 %Human Acti&ity4 Rules the 'limateB= !ndia !ssued a report challenging glo)a-ears= !nternational Scientists demanded the U% !P'' )e called to account its decepti&e practices=B

he scientists and peer/re&iewed studies countering climate claims are the .ethat the U=S= pu)lic has grown e&er more s.eptical o- man/made climate doopredictions=1See# Global !armin1 ran"s dead last7 8, out of 8, in ne! 4e!4e! Survey# & Survey finds ma@ority of $%S% oters 0 3+6 I no! believe)umans are not t)e 'redominant cause of climate c)an1e3 0


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realistically simulate the climate system )ecause there are many &ery importagrid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely om+urthermore4 some scientists ha&e manipulated the o)ser&ed data to Dusti-y thresults= !n doing so4 they neither eplain what they ha&e modi-ied in the o)senor eplain how they did it= hey ha&e resisted ma.ing their wor. transparencan )e replicated independently )y other scientists= his is clearly contrary toscience should )e done= hus there is no rational Dusti-ication -or using clima-orecasts to determine pu)lic policy=

"ith )est wishes4 (ohn

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