Re: [asa] Creation Care

See http://timlambert.org/2005/11/milloy-spreads-lie/ for the likely
source. Hansen provided a lower, upper and most likely scenario.
Somehow the upper limit became "Hansen's prediction" rather than the
far more accurate one based on the most likely scenario.

This myth still seems to be doing the rounds in global warming
deniers. I am not sure if they should be proud on how Hansen's results
were misrepresented.

Pim

On 1/21/07, Randy Isaac <randyisaac@adelphia.net> wrote:
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> "When Hansen announced in the summer of 1988 that global warming was here,
> he predicted temperatures would increase .35 degrees Celsius over the next
> ten years. Do you know what the actual increase was?" "I'm sure you'll tell
> me it was less than that." "Much less, Peter. Dr. Hansen overestimated by
> three hundred percent. The actual increase was .11 degrees." "Okay. But it
> did increase." "And ten years after his testimony, he said that the forces
> that govern climate change are so poorly understood that long-term
> prediction is impossible."
>

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Received on Sun Jan 21 22:39:29 2007