These climate articles flood the popular press. They are based mostly on supposition and guesses by the "experts". But behind the scenes real progress has been made. The satellite data has unequivocally disproved the Hansen Hypothesis. We can now be quite certain that none of the CO2 abatement measures already implemented or proposed will have any discernible affect on climate, other than to possibly reduce mean temperature by a negligible amount over a few centuries. We will, nevertheless, reap some peripheral benefits from these measures, but it will be for the wrong reasons. The cost/benefit ratio will be hugely skewed against us. Of course the driving force behind this modern day Lysenkoism are the profits to be made by dipping indirectly into the public pockets that's made possible by politicizing and popularizing science as a "means of authority". Only when there is an immediate economic impact can such fervor be drummed up.
Hansen is unwittingly our modern day Lysenko, but he can't be exonerated because of his continued insistence that the models incorporating positive feedback are right despite recent observations to the contrary, including the satellite data. There are strong parallels between the present-day climate change fiasco and the politically dominant Lysenko movement in the Soviet Union. We have seen it all before right down to hyperpoliticizing to the point that even the expert community is somewhat split along ideological lines.
The global nature of the present fiasco makes it far more dangerous than Lysenkoism. Sometime within this or the next few centuries the Earth will enter a cooling cycle and the temperature will decline by a deg or two. This will be taken as a sign that the measures to reduce CO2 emissions have successfully avoided a disaster, and the talk will then shift to warnings of a dangerous, approaching ice age. If we continue acting like fools it will be a pity.
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* Please do me the favor of not attempting to read between the lines of my remarks. They are what they are, nothing more, nothing less.
Since there are at least a dozen other climate threads this year alone, perhaps you could limit your Hansen Hypothesis posts to one of them.
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