In a couple of posts further down, I pointed to the ravings of Dr. Hansen who thinks that people who oppose his notions of anthropogenic global warming should be locked up. This, er, emotional man made a speech to Congress almost exactly 20 years ago telling the American government that unless large scale measures to reduce CO2 were taken (they weren't) global temperatures would rise 1 degree centigrade in the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts, no maybes - that was his prediction. With all the technical wizardry for which I am famous, I actually managed to reproduce a graph that indicated how wrong he had proved to be. It is, I think, a very fine multi-coloured graph of the sort of quality you would expect here, at Duff & Nonsense, purveyors of vintage intelligence to the gentry. However, always eager to provide you with an excellent service, I have found an even better one, not in terms of its good looks, but in its provenance. This is the actual graph used by Dr. Strangelove Hansen in the appendices to his famous speech 20 years ago!
The top two black lines you can see shooting up from left to right are Dr. Hansen's preferred measures of global temperatures based on weather station measurements which Anthony Watts has demonstrated over and over again are as reliable as a nine bob note! It is worth pondering on the fact that Watts's officially acknowledged (through gritted teeth) campaign to show the hopeless unreliability of weather recording stations is based on those in the most sophisticated nation in the world, the USA. Now ask yourself how much reliance you would put on Russian and/or Chinese weather stations, to say nothing of Africa and South America? Most scientists would put very much greater faith in satellite measurements, but not Dr. Hansen, he's an old-fashioned chap so he relies on the figures, as adjusted by himself using computer codes that he will not release to others, from weather stations. So, the first and top black line was produced by his own Goddard Institute which is, and here the irony of him ignoring satellite measurements could not be greater, part of NASA! The second black line is that produced using figures from weather stations by our very own Hadley Centre, another centre, not of excellence but of secrecy in regard to their working papers. The third, or bottom, black line is Dr. Hansen's estimate of the temperature over the last 20 years if rigorous actions were taken to reduce CO2 - which they weren't.
So, a remarkable piece of scientific history preserved and presented specially to you by Duff & Nonsense. Er, unfortunately, in an act of vandalism equivalent to drawing a Hitler moustache on the Mona Lisa, some ungrateful, heretic wretch has superimposed the actual temperatures as measured by satellite. Oh dear, "what a falling off was there"!
I am obliged to the superb Climate Skeptic for this information.
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