Global warming chief Hansen told adherents not to confuse weather events with long term climate, but said focus on extreme events can drive attention

James Hansen has collected at least $900,000 in prize money for influencing governments in efforts to divert billions of taxpayer dollars to man-caused global warming or catastrophic man-caused climate change endeavors.

4/24/2006, "NASA Expert Tells Alarmists to Cool Down Climate Hype," CNS News, Marc Morano

"We are still at a point where the natural fluctuations of climate are still large -- at least, the natural fluctuations of weather compared to long-term climate change," (James) Hansen, director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the participants in the April 13 teleconference.

"So we don't want the public to hang their hat on a recent storm, recent hurricanes for example, because those will fluctuate from year to year,"
he said....

Hansen...previously acknowledged that he supported the "emphasis on extreme scenarios" regarding climate change models in order to drive the public's attention to the issue."...

The teleconference was open to the media and fielded questions from New
York Times reporter Andrew Revkin, CNN, U.S. News & World Report and
other media outlets.

Not a single question was posed to the panel during the teleconference challenging the panelists' views on climate change or the politics surrounding it. Some of the media questions even elaborated on the
points made by the panel and offered helpful advice on strategy. ...

Cybercast News Service was not given the opportunity to ask a question
during the teleconference despite having registered for the event. The
moderator told panelists that there were no more questions from the
media even though Cybercast News Service made repeated attempts to ask a
question....

CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley, who has done several high-profile
reports for "60 Minutes" on climate change, also agrees that the science
of "global warming" is settled.

"There is virtually no disagreement in the scientific community any
longer about 'global warming,'" he said. "The science that has been done
in the last three to five years has been conclusive," Pelley told the
CBS News's PublicEye blog in February.

Pelley's profile of Hansen in a March "60 Minutes" segment failed to
note any of Hansen's ties to the Democratic Party or his receipt of a
$250,000 from Teresa Heinz Kerry's foundation. In addition, Pelley
compared scientists skeptical of human-caused catastrophic climate
change to Holocaust deniers....

(Steve) Milloy said he was not surprised that many in the news media now believe
the debate over climate change is over.

"The 'global warming' lobby hopes to stop all dissent by shutting out, shouting down and intimidating any opposition," Milloy said, noting that Gore has refused the opportunity to debate climate skeptics on this
issue.

"The warmers apparently know that their hysteria doesn't hold up to
scientific analysis, so silencing the opposition is their primary
tactic," Milloy said."...






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