By Andrew Bolt ~
Pat Michaels and Ryan Maue fact check the explosive claim made 30 years ago by probably the high priest of the global warming scare:
James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow. Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance. He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”
With that testimony and an accompanying paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Mr. Hansen lit the bonfire of the greenhouse vanities, igniting a world-wide debate that continues today about the energy structure of the entire planet…
But the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his…
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