Hansen and Watts [Allegedly] Agree: Cold Weather, Warm Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Anthony Watts runs a Web site that has become perhaps the most popular portal for climate news and opinion of interest to people aiming to rebut warnings that humans are poised to disrupt climate. James E. Hansen of NASA has long been the most prominent scientist advocating sharp and prompt cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases to avoid a climatic calamity.Revkin desperately wants to think that one "warm" day in a 30-year record is "climate", but I doubt that Watts agrees.
In the last few days, a notable conjunction occurred when these two men essentially agreed on something: that the planet — despite a lot of very cold patches — is unusually warm.
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Mr. Watts posted a piece in what he called “the weather is not climate department,” highlighting satellite measurements showing that January, and particularly Jan. 13, were unusually warm (for the 30-year satellite period)
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Anthony Watts in an email to me following the Dot Earth post today:
"For the record, I've never doubted a global temperature increase in the last century, only the attribution of cause focusing solely on CO2 when I see many other potential contributors."
I agree with Anthony's statement from that email.
But when did Anthony ever say that the planet is *unusually* warm?
This is a faux argument. I understand certain people with financial and social interests prefer to "fog" the issue. Before discussing the fact that the planet has evolved many times over millions of years for geological and other reasons, the matter at hand is that our governments are proceeding as if warming has occurred specifically because of man's activities. Further, the only reason we as citizens are in this ridiculous discussion is we've had about 20 years of weak leadership in the US. Part weak, part greedy, politicians have sat by and taken the big money involved in this scam. Persons such as Mr. Revkin might want to use his array of contacts to report on organized crime figures that are involved in this industry (documented and reported some time ago in UK papers). That would be helpful if that's what Mr. Revkin wants to be.
I remember a few weeks back A. Revkin was going to leave the Times in disgrace after being caught in bed with Phil Jones, Mike Mann, and Gavin Schmidt.
He's mighty slow in going.
Based on this apparent flip flop, his conspiratorial chummyness with CRU, his myopic AGW cheerleading, and his active censorship (RealClimate style) of the Dot Earth website, I'd take anything he claims regarding Anthony Watts, or most any other subject, with a healthy pinch of salt.
And by the way, after three years of Anthony being the leading voice pointing out the complete unreflective buy in to climate Change Inc, finally Andy gets around to mentioning WUWT out in the open, not sniggering about him in private with the RealClimate gaggle, and it's to attack Anthony's credibility?
Screw you and the horse you rode in on Revkin.
You're like that character Paul Reiser played in Aliens When Sigorney points out you can't tell which is worse a company flack like Burke or the monsters, she could just as easily been talking about Revkin.
In the immortal words of Ripley, "You don't see them (the monsters) f***ing each other over for a goddamn percentage."
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