Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:09 PM

Subject: Re: The Venus Syndrome (by Dr James Hanson + My Reply)

Dr Jim Hanson, NASA

Jim

Why don't your charts include the very important and historic cooling of planet Earth, now underway?? Errors of omission are particularly unacceptable in science!

I don't care where you are right now, Jim - look out the window.

.........Ken Shock, Physicist

ps: Jim, you are a public servant, paid by we the taxpayers. You owe it to us to read this : https://tinyurl.com/3sjq5e and this : https://tinyurl.com/8w3nvv
AND, when you next see your close friend Al Gore, please ask him about this:
https://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Pledge

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https://apnews.myway.com/article/20081222/D9581GPO0.html

Winter visits with a vengeance from East to West

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Dec 22, 5:40 PM (ET)

By POLLY ANDERSON
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https://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather

SEVERE COLD WAVE TO HIT EUROPE

The development of a major blocking high pressure system over the north atlantic and its subsequent backing west is about to throw most of Europe into the coldest winter weather pattern in many a year. In fact, Temps over the next month or so are liable to average 6-10 degrees F below normal over the center part of the continent with the northwest coldest last, but still getting into the games. Intuitive with this is the likelihood of more than normal snow and ice. As the upper block backs west, arctic discharges from the north and east are liable to bring shots of severe cold back into England and with it enhanced snowfall.

While it has been "chilly" so far, what is about to come is the worst in many a winter, perhaps the sign that the warm AMO is reaching its maturity. The US winter has been much like those around 1950 which was the benchmark winter in the pac northwest of the US and was the warning shot that the warm cycle of the 30s 40s and 50s was starting its end game. It should be comforting to people worried that we are pushing our planet over the edge that things that happened before are happening again, though the discomfort caused by cold is a big problem

I wish to point out, with no malice intended, that the two countries who have major scientific organizations that have been pushing the global warming idea, Britain and the UKMET and the US with NOAA have been burned by the cold that has developed here. NOAA had a December forecast for a warm central US for November that they were forced to revise and the UKMET forecast for a rather bland winter for Europe speaks for itself. Its anything but bland, whether it averages out near the average or not, because what is coming has not been seen in years.

Now that could mean that its testimony to how warm it is... it hasnt been seen in years. But the fact it hasnt disappeared completely, the fact it is coming back and catching people off guard (hopefully not you) means there is no rout on, but plenty of doubt. If an enemy is vanquished, it should not be able to launch attacks of this magnitude.

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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:56 PM, James Hansen <jeh1@columbia.edu> wrote:

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My "Bjerknes Lecture" presentation at the American Geophysical Union on 17 December 2008 is available as Powerpoint
( https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/AGUBjerknes_20081217.ppt)

and PDF ( https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/AGUBjerknes_20081217.pdf). It includes a brief discussion of the first 44 charts, prepared so that I could get through a large number of charts coherently. Ran out of time in preparation, but remaining charts are reasonably self-explanatory. Thanks to Steve Nerem, Larry Thomason, Ed Dlugokencky, Tom Delworth, Gokhan Danabasoglu, and Jonathan Gregory for providing data and model results, which I was able to partially include in the limited days that I had for preparation.

Jim