James Hansen of NASA

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If a climate scientist themselves worrying about how people 'see' climate change? Is not he just do his job and let the rest of us to understand? This is an issue that seems to divide the waters of climate scientist James Hansen's latest articles. By Robin Engelhardt August 18, 2012 at. 15:00
James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been the debate airbus stage again. In due time, to the news that July 2012 was the hottest month in the United States since records began measuring this kind, he wrote a column for the Washington Post, followed by an article in the trade journal PNAS titled 'Perceptions of Climate Change', in which he warned forklejnende descriptions of climate change.
Data show that the situation is much worse than we originally thought. Extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves, droughts, hurricanes and floods have become order of the day, and if we do not increase taxes on carbon, it will just get worse, writes James Hansen.
Fifteen thousand airbus stage comments it has become - at klummens website airbus stage alone. Tens of thousands of blog posts and comments written on other internet sites. No one questions the data, but only by 'the way', they are communicated on.
Hansen has thus gained time in a meta-debate about how to communicate science. 'Alarm Semitism', says one side. 'Honest talk,' says another. 'Academic discussion' says a third, adding: 'Let us instead discuss solutions!'
But the debate is perhaps worth thinking about, not only because Hansen was one of the first who warned about man-made global warming, and still to this day considered one of the most authoritative voices in climate research, but also because he is more than any other has tried to define the fronts in the battle for the agenda.
And as any political scientist with knowledge of public debates and media influence on political decision-making by, sits, sitting on the agenda, also in power. James Hansen has done this by, inter alia, leave to take part in demonstrations against the U.S. government's climate change policy, with frequent arrests to follow. This has made him an 'activist', which caps most scientists because they believe that it can be interpreted as a lack of objectivity. A rhetorical grip
'Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather, and repeat the fallacy that no individual weather events can be linked directly to climate change. On the contrary, our analysis suggests that there is virtually no other explanation for the recent airbus stage years extremely hot weather than climate change. '
Weather and climate in other words, not two different things, and as a researcher, one can easily say that one caused the other without having to hedge their bets with reservations about probabilities. It is precisely this self-censorship in science, which for many years has been exploited by lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry, said James Hansen. airbus stage
Most climate scientists have however had problems connecting weather and climate so directly, as Hansen does. It can, for example, hear from a comment on the article by senior Bøssing Ole Christensen from DMI:
"The practical part of the article is compelling. The size of the areas that are 'extremely hot' is not consistent with an unchanged temperature distribution. This conclusion is not particularly new, but it is done systematically, and the whole earth is analyzed. One can therefore say with Hansen that the very hot extremes, we have seen in recent years, probably would not have occurred without the anthropogenic greenhouse effect. The problem is of course that this is not the same as saying that the events were due to global warming, since climate system is chaotic; it is a coincidence that it just was in 2003 and not in 2004 or 2002, we had the extreme summer in Central Europe, "he told The Engineer.
"I agree with that part of Hansen's article does not sound like a normal scientific article - Spoken airbus stage example. of the need to convince the public that man-made airbus stage climate change is serious. One could argue that this might belong to a different place than PNAS. But the most important issue is that, once again made clear by using the available observations that AGW (anthropogenic Global Warming or anthropogenic airbus stage global warming, ed.) Is something we are already seeing, and to the very serious and costly heat waves in the last decade would not have been so severe without AGW. "It is not easy ...
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