Obama A Star Pupil In Hansen School Of Climate Change

Dr. Tim Ball
November 26, 2008

QUOTE: Hansenist climate hysteria is driven by relentless, ideological, pseudo-scientific drivel, most of which issues from green political activists and their supporters, and is then promulgated by compliant media commentators who are innocent of knowledge of true scientific method.

QUOTE: It is not possible to prove the errors were deliberate even though all the changes made were always to enhance current warming. However, the errors are serious enough to require removal for incompetence, especially when combined with Hansen's public activities as a bureaucrat. For example, he testified before Congress that oil executive's should be tried for crimes against humanity. He was testifying in his charade as a private citizen.



So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements

Bernard Baruch said, "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing." Barack Obama promised a great deal. He was rarely specific, but his generalities were interpreted to mean he would deal with each voter's specific concerns. His promise of change was nothing new, but people believed it was different than any thing seen before in Washington. He is not President yet, but already he has demonstrated an inability to satisfy the expectations raised by his eloquence and vagueness. For example, Republicans say his appointments are not change but simply a return to the Clinton regime. Democrats claim he needs experience and the Clinton years were good ones so this does not affect the concept of change he promoted.

Everyone hopes he is successful in resolving at least some of the issues facing the US and the world. However, this assumes in every case that there is a problem that the cause is generally understood, and the solution resolves rather than exacerbates. For example, all the financial fixes may achieve short-term and apparent resolutions, but if they don't address the fundamental fact that you can't spend more than you make as an individual or a government you will make the problem worse.

Obama, knowingly and unknowingly, has raised the bar of expectation very high.

In the area of climate change he has done it with almost messianic fervor. How else can you interpret the objective to stop climate change? He is not alone in this arrogant objective, but all it means is he is not alone in the fact that it displays a complete lack of understanding of climate and the natural extent of climate change. In his case, he provided evidence when he announced plans to list CO2 as a toxic substance and a pollutant. When he was specific he simply underscored his lack of knowledge and understanding.

This is not surprising as Al Gore is apparently his source of information. Indeed, many were touting Gore as the new climate Tsar in the Obama administration. Even if Gore wasn't chosen and reports say he has already rejected the possibility, his position as the guru of climate change within the Democratic Party make him impossible to ignore.

A German proverb says, "He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind." This is ideal but not realistic. It assumes the leader hears and sees all sides of an issue and reaches a conclusion independent of biased advisers. It also assumes the leader understands the details and complexities of the issue. That is clearly not the situation with Obama and climate change. It is also untrue about Gore. So who becomes the player of influence on climate and energy policy in the Obama regime?

The answer is James Hansen, the same person who has influenced Gore since 1988 when he appeared before Gore's Senate Committee. Stephen Schneider introduced him at a Stanford University presentation recently as "an iconic leader".

Schneider made the following statement reported in Discover magazine, October 1989. "Scientists need to get some broader base support, to capture the public's imagination. that, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." No wonder Schneider defines him as iconic because nobody has practiced what Schneider preached more than Hansen.

John Daly described Schneider as a "Greenhouse Superstar."

Schneider continued his career in climate even though he is a biologist and his most recent influence was in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. He was an author for the Summary for Policymaker (SPM), the document most important in determining what the media and public know about the science of climate change. It is a political document produced before the final scientific report is produced.

So Schneider has been involved with the deception that is the IPCC from the very beginning.

Schneider operates behind the scenes, but Hansen is very prominent. Despite being a Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), he appears before Congressional Committees sometimes as bureaucrat and sometimes as private citizen. This practice is typical Hansen. He is entitled to his personal opinions, but it is impossible for a committee to consider his views equal to another private citizen in a matter related to his expertise.

Professor Bob Carter classifies this behavior as `Hansenism'. After making statements about three generally held but false beliefs about climate and climate change, he says;

Their assertion is a symptom of a disease called Hansenism which has gripped western media sources and political, business and public opinion in a deadly grasp. Hansenist climate hysteria is driven by relentless, ideological, pseudo-scientific drivel, most of which issues from green political activists and their supporters, and is then promulgated by compliant media commentators who are innocent of knowledge of true scientific method.

Carter says Hansenism is more dangerous than Lysenkoism. This was ideological control of genetics by Trofim Lysenko, Director of the Institute of Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which evolved around four main themes Carter identifies as follows:

a.. A necessity to demonstrate the practical relevance of science to the needs of society; b.. The amassing of evidence to show the "correctness" of the concept as a substitute for causal proof; c.. Noble cause corruption, whereby data are manipulated to support a cause which is seen as a higher truth; and d.. Ideological zeal, such the dissidents are silenced as "enemies of the truth".
At his Stanford speech Hansen showed photos of his grandchildren and said, "It is a basic conflict between fossil fuel special interests and the interests of young people, nature and animals." Surely this is a classic case of noble cause corruption to justify the pattern of his behavior.

From the time of his appearance before Gore's committee to the speech at Stanford, Hansen continued his tactics. Fear, threats of impending doom, running out of time, are all used and backed by misinformation, unjustified speculation, and inaccurate information. " Time is running out to prevent catastrophic consequences from global warming," "We've reached a point where we have a crisis, an emergency, but people don't know that". They do know about it, but they are less and less convinced as the evidence shows humans and their CO2 are not the cause. In another Hansenism he claims, "There's a big gap between what's understood about global warming by the scientific community and what is known by the public and policymakers." He is right for the wrong reason. It is the IPCC and his own public statements that have created the gap. Data put out by NASA GISS for which he is Director has created serious misdirection.

His agency claimed 1998 the warmest year in the US and the eight warmest years occurred since 1998. Steve McIntyre showed that the numbers were due to an error and 1934 was the warmest year and four of the top ten warmest years were in the 1930s.

The incident was classified as an error, but many considered it suspicious in light of a pattern of "errors" and adjustments of the record NASA GISS. All these adjustments made past temperatures lower thus making current conditions apparently warmer. GISS is not alone in this practice. The infamous 'hockey stick' achieved the goal of "getting rid of the Medieval Warm Period as reported here.

More recently NASA GISS claimed October 2008 was the second warmest on record. It was claimed they did not produce the data, but they accepted it and put it out under their name. The error was large and should have raised alarms. Record low temperatures and early snow were reported in many regions, but this was ignored in the eagerness to promote global warming.

It is not possible to prove the errors were deliberate even though all the changes made were always to enhance current warming. However, the errors are serious enough to require removal for incompetence, especially when combined with Hansen's public activities as a bureaucrat. For example, he testified before Congress that oil executive's should be tried for crimes against humanity. He was testifying in his charade as a private citizen.

He was also a private citizen when he appeared before a British court recently. He testified for the defense of Greenpeace supporters accused of damaging a coal plant. He said they were justified because it was part of a need to protect the world from global warming. The defendants were acquitted.

Apparently in 2006, and clearly with justification, concern was growing over the activities of the highly political bureaucrat. Hansen's defense was a strong offense. He appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform claiming political interference. His claim raises questions about the role of bureaucrats in a democracy. He pursued the topic again in a paper published in early 2008.

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Dr. Tim Ball

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November 25, 2008
Bloodshed and Death is coming to American Businessmen
In my 46 years on this Earth, I have never had to write such a frightening Op-Ed piece as this. Sadly, the state of affairs inside the US and its business community is such that remaining silent is no longer an option.
Put bluntly, bloodshed and death is coming. Brutal, violent, merciless. Perpetrated with malice aforethought. If I am right, many of you business folks - especially the folks at the top - are going to be the ones doing the bleeding and the dying.
How we got to this point is simple. How we stop it from happening is not so simple; but there is still a small window of opportunity which may help avert this.
It began with NAFTA and GATT. The whole "free trade" movement was sales-pitched to us common folk as a way to break down trade barriers so American products could be sold overseas with greater ease and competitiveness. The pitch told us that it would help American companies and increase American jobs. That sales pitch was a deliberate lie.
What was really afoot was a way for American corporations to significantly reduce their manufacturing costs by opening state-of-the-art facilities in third world countries, hiring third-world workers at pittance pay with no benefits, while maintaining sales prices. This allowed you folks to pocket huge additional profits.
Next, you corporate folks decided to jump on the "Diversity" bandwagon, Diversity replaced merit. Corporate productivity slid but no one could dare step up to say why for fear of being fired as a racist.
Diversity became and end unto itself and ultimately it was the straight, white male who suffered most. Straight white males were intentionally passed-over for jobs and promotions. When "downsizing" took place, it was the straight, white male cut loose so "diversity" could be maintained.
The last straw - and by far the worst betrayal - was the intentional use of illegal aliens and the intentional importation of foreign, cheap labor under the H1-B Visa system. Companies even went so far as to send their Human Resources people to seminars offered by law firms so they could learn precisely how to disqualify Americans for available jobs, in favor of importing foreigners!
Well, ladies and gentlemen of the business community, the chickens have now come home to roost.
Vast numbers of unemployed Americans, unable to pay their mortgages after losing jobs, began defaulting, causing foreclosures to rise.
Vast numbers of illegal aliens who were also given mortgages (by banks who feared being labeled racists if they declined to lend), defaulted on their mortgages too. This caused even more foreclosures.
As foreclosures grew, they affected the value of nearby homes whose owners suddenly found out they owed more than their homes were worth! When their mortgage companies demanded large, lump sum payments to pay down the excess mortgage, those folks could not pay and. . . . were foreclosed upon.
Long story short, these foreclosures caused the banking system to contract, which caused the credit markets to dry up, which caused everything else to go in the crapper. That's where we are today.
Where we're heading is unlike anything you can imagine.
Unlike the great depression of the 1930's, people today are quite well educated. We know exactly how this trouble happened and exactly who is to blame: YOU. The corporate hot shots who put profit over country; who put greed above loyalty and who cared not one wit about who was displaced, who was harmed, or who got shafted.
Unlike the great depression, people today have lost a lot more than just their jobs and homes. They've lost their retirement nest eggs, their children's college funds and worst of all, any chance at a better future. Therein lies a recipe for violence;. and folks, violence is coming - right at you.
You see, folks of today understand that allowing the great depression of the 1930's to take place without retribution against those who caused it, set the stage for this latest financial screw job.
As any parent can tell you, when being nice over bad behavior fails to stop such behavior, one must resort to punishing bad behavior to prevent future bad acts.
Punishment for what you have done is your due and folks out here in the real world are preparing to deliver it - right to your physical person on the doorstep of your offices and homes.
Thanks to the internet, we know who the CEO's and CFO's of all your companies are. We know who is on every Board of Directors. Thanks to information services like Intellius.com, we also know where all of you live. ALL of you.
Americans who have lost everything, have no reservation whatsoever about coming after you to inflict violence for wrecking their lives and our nation. In fact, I personally know of a "movement" of several groups actively recruiting the destitute from make-shift homeless centers, with the intention of organizing criminal violence against you. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazis and White racist skinheads are seeing staggering growth in membership. I know. I've seen it with my own eyes. And you know what? I agree with "the movement" because I think what you've done stinks.
I will proudly stand with those groups when the time comes.
These groups are folks, right here in America, who have nothing left. They have lost everything, including all hope. They do not fear the police, jail or death. They certainly don't fear you.
More interesting, many of the people now facing utter destitution are US military veterans and they are helping the aforementioned groups prepare for what's coming. Through their contacts in the military, veterans in the groups mentioned above have gained access to automatic weapons, armor piercing ammunition, grenades, C4 plastic explosives, anti-personnel mines, rocket-propelled grenades and more!
I personally know one former US Army Combat Engineer in the National Alliance. I can't even begin to describe how helpful he has been to "the movement."
If you want an example of how frighteningly effective this movement has become, I can tell you for an absolute fact that the US Secret Service had to emergency-deploy eight (8) sniper teams around Grant Park in Chicago, IL on election night because a member of "the movement" was reportedly headed down there with military Mortars to attack and kill Barack Obama and his supporters! That's how bold, how brazen, how incredibly dangerous things are getting!
What good will the police or your corporate security forces be against these types of dedicated and committed, angry people? What good are the "safe rooms" you've built in your homes or office buildings when C4 and RPG's can blow right through them?
Last year, a listener to my talk radio show who is a gunsmith, thought I might like having an illegal silencer for my gun. He built one and shipped it to me! I have pictures to prove it!
Was it illegal? Yes. Did he care? No. Did I care? I won't say.
You have no idea how bad things are getting out here in real America. Trust me, if you don't do something now to step up and help the average people of this country, by the time you find out exactly how bad things are, it will be too late for you.
So I think you corporate folks would do well to seriously reconsider your actions over the past 15 - 20 years and decide whether you're going to help America or continue lining your own pockets? Are you going to bring the jobs back to America or continue using third world labor as your country collapses? Are you going to stop this bad behavior or are you going to have to be punished?
If you need help deciding, just ask yourself this: What good is all your wealth if an uprising of angry white males leaves you too dead to spend it? Oh, and if you think an uprising can't happen here, think again.
The bullet-resistant vests worn by police and your corporate security do not protect them from the paralyzing effects of a Tazer. Once the cops and security people are neutralized, your guns and those of the angry white males can do their thing. Since there are more of us than you, we win.
There's a fight coming. The cops can't stop it. The lawyers can't stop it. The courts can't stop it. The military is spread too thin around the world to be of any consequence and the government is too broke to fund any more homeland security.
But this fight doesn't have to happen. It can be avoided with a little national loyalty and a little compassion.
Get your Board of Directors together and ask what your company can do to help America for the next 24 months? Talk to your stockholders and ask their permission to cut dividends by half for the sole purpose of hiring more AMERICANS to jobs here in America.
Go on TV and tell the public what you're doing to make things better HERE, at home! You can recover from the horrid reputation you've gotten, and help resolve the horrid situation you have created if you'll only take some time to do the right things for the COUNTRY. A little corporate sacrifice will go a long way to help a lot of us little people. The gratitude and admiration it will generate will be priceless.
Of course, you are free to continue being impressed with yourselves as masters of the universe and keep right on doing what you've been doing. If that is your intention, then know now: The jig is up. Either get right with white males and America, or get your affairs in order.
Hal Turner