Comments on: Former NASA Boss Declares Himself a Sceptic and Slams Climate Models

By: Louis Hissink

Louis Hissink — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:09:12 +0000

For what it is worth, I side with Roy Spencer’s views, but we might disagree on fundamentals, slightly.

By: janama

janama — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:09:46 +0000

No Jan – he’s creationist therefore he must be wrong!! plus he’s not a real scientist, he doesn’t post on RealClimate. :)

cool – this makes 100 posts fro the thread, I couldn’t resist.

By: Jan Pompe

Jan Pompe — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:23:04 +0000

janama don’t you know daily kos is never wrong and Roy Spencer who actually worked there with these people cannot possibly be right.

By: janama

janama — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:32:36 +0000

according to Roy Spencer he was Hansen’s, and Spencer’s boss.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

By: Will Nitschke

Will Nitschke — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:47:21 +0000

SJT:

“Slams climate models?

Looks to me like the models are doing fine.

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Rahmstorf_etal.pdf”

Climate model predictions are so vague that it’s hard to refute them in the short term… The error range looks like .4C… for any given year… gimmeabreak…

But even so, if you include the last couple of years (omitted from the report), the models are almost (not quite) already falsified even with the huge error bars (assuming 5% confidence interval). If that’s the definition of “doing fine” in the field of climatology, then I wouldn’t be rushing out to invest in carbon permits any time soon.

Of course, 2008 might just have been a highly anomalous year.

By: sod

sod — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:12:58 +0000

Even the report says Theon had authority over Hansen’s funding. If that isn’t control, what is?

he was NOT his boss.

but that is, what the headline claims. false, as usual.

By: PeterK

PeterK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:00:46 +0000

SJT: Theon was not Hansens boss … Another AGW attack based on lies. Nothing to see here, people. Move on.

Even the report says Theon had authority over Hansen’s funding. If that isn’t control, what is?

By: SJT

SJT — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:19:26 +0000

Theon was not Hansens boss.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/28/19755/5879/380/690181

Another AGW attack based on lies. Nothing to see here, people. Move on.

By: PeterK

PeterK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:26:23 +0000

PeterK: Global temperatures have very slightly declined for the last decade or so.

David: We have not had a cooler than average year for 25 years.

Even the alarmist Guardian (UK) has said that global warming has of late been replaced by global cooling, with 2008 the “coolest year of the decade”.
(And that is true even ignoring the high of 1998).

By: SJT

SJT — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:46:50 +0000

Slams climate models?

Looks to me like the models are doing fine.

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Rahmstorf_etal.pdf