Gavin Schmidt: "predictions [Hansen] made have generally worked out very favorably (for him, not really the planet)"

James Hansen, climate activist, is retiring from NASA - The Washington Post

Gavin Schmidt, deputy chief of the Goddard Institute, wrote in an e-mail that Hansen “has been at the forefront of almost every conceptual advance in climate in science over 40 years.”

He noted that on the issues that have come to define the scientific debate, from the impact of black carbon and greenhouse gases beyond carbon dioxide to constructing climate models and gauging climate sensitivity, “the stuff that Jim wrote 20 years ago has set the tone for the whole field [and the] predictions he made have generally worked out very favorably (for him, not really the planet).”