Tidbits from the alarmist book about Jim Hansen: "Censoring Science" by Mark Bowen

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[in the 1990s] Jim [Hansen] felt Gore was spinning the science in the other direction, violating what he calls the "Feynman admonition" by seeing global warming everywhere he looked."

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[about 10 years later] Since the planet had continued to warm in the intervening decade, Jim could now see through the lens of science what he realized Gore had accurately perceived through intuition.

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...[Michael Crichton and George W. Bush] held a private meeting at the White House in 2005, arranged by Karl Rove, during which they reportedly "talked for an hour and were in near-total agreement" on climate "science".

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...the IPCC's third assessment report would note that the human signature on climate change first became discernible sometime between 1975 and 1980.

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[Early 1980s] Then, Jim's mentor, Ichtiaque Rasool, got into the act with a letter to Climatic Change that went a little overboard, questioning Jim's integrity by suggesting that he "emphasized the worst case to get the attention of decision makers who control funding."

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[June 1988] At one point during the meeting, Rasool remarked that no respectable scientist would make the statement that the present warming could be identified with the greenhouse effect. Jim looked up from his writing and said, "I don't know if he's respectable or not, but I know someone who is just about to make that statement".

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[1989?] "When we're at this level of signal-to-noise, anyone can disagree with me. I don't argue with that," Jim told [Richard] Kerr.

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As he told Kerr in 1989, "The one thing that has the greatest impact on my thinking is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from 280 parts per million in the nineteenth century to its present 350 parts per million. It's just inconceivable that that is not affecting our climate. There's no model that would not say it's affecting it right now. It's just a logical, well-reasoned conclusion."

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...the direct solar effects are surprisingly small--about ten times smaller than the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.

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Even in March 2006, when Jim was caught up in the censorship drama and seemed barely to have scraped away with his job, he was willing to admit that there had been a shred of doubt five years earlier, at the start of the Bush-Cheney presidency. But now he and his fellow climatologists had "made the science story much stronger than it was in 2000."

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[A recommendation by Hansen] The scale would have to be massive: huge biomass-burning power plants in the interiors of continents with pipelines carrying the captured carbon dioxide to the coast for sequestration in the deep ocean below the bed--the best place to put it, according to the latest thinking.