Dr. James Hansen Says...

NASA GISS guru, Dr. James Hansen has now admitted the mean global temperature has been “flat” for the last decade and interpreted causes are due to a combination of a net climate forcing slow down and an acknowledgement of the existence of natural variability.

GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Apparently, the paper has not been peer-reviewed yet!

I wonder if Australia’s High Priests promoting catastrophic global warming and catastrophic rising of the seas such as Government-sponsored Climate Commission Chief Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, will take any notice of this paper by uber-guru,  Dr. Hansen.  Probably not.  Rent seekers prefer to ignore inconvenient truth.

Finally being confronted with empirical evidence, which now embraces the previously denied roles of el Nino and la Nina in global temperatures, it must have dented Dr. Hansen’s ego a bit having to co-author this new paper which seems to fly in the face of  Hansen’s previous bouts of warmist hysteria.

Will publication of this Hansen paper lead to a general climbing down of the hysteria-mongers?  I doubt it.  Too many of them have vested interests in the continuing dripping of the tax-payer funded teat.  So the shrieking and hand-wringing will continue ad nauseam even in the face of fact.

You will not see this latest revelation being responsibly reported by Fairfax Media or the (taxpayer-funded, balanced, unbiased) ABC.  Oh – no.  It might lead to an admission the pudding has been wilfully over-egged.   They will want nothing to do with reporting on the Hansen document because it goes against the group-think meme.  And these particular mainstream media outlets will not wish to upset their dyed-in-the-wool Green readers, viewers or listeners!   In other words, keep the entire audience ignorant and don’t encourage them to think freely in case they start asking hard questions!   Questions that might just touch upon the lack of quality journalism in Australia and accuracy and balance in reporting.

Did any of you read about the re-jigging of temperature forecasting conducted by the UK Met Office in a report released on Christmas Eve in a Fairfax publication – or see, hear or read anything about it on the ABC?   I didn’t!  Consumers reliant on these two media outlets for accurate information will be unaware the Planet has not warmed for over 16 years and is unlikely to warm over the next four years.  In short, they will be unaware there is likely to be no significant warming for two decades!

When will this unspeakable global fraud end?  When western democracies are completely bankrupt, brought to their knees and ripe fruit for hijacking into fold of a UN-led World Government?

You can follow the Hansen saga here:  The pragmatic Judith Curry

And the well informed Anthony Watts: