It would be surprising if Hansen paid much attention to the Medieval Warming since it contradicts his fairy-tale Anthropogenic CO2 warming theory. Ii is doubtful he seriously investigated the Medieval Warming, even though it was well documented by Lamb some 40 years ago. Lamb’s work has been extensively verified by researchers around the world.

WASHINGTON – The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can’t be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a top government scientist.

The research by a man often called the “godfather of global warming” says that the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s through the 1980s was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by NASA scientist James Hansen. He says that statistically what’s happening is not random or normal, but pure and simple climate change.

“This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific fact,” Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview.

Hansen is a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and a professor at Columbia University. But he is also a strident activist who has called for government action to curb greenhouse gases for years. While his study was published online Saturday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it is unlikely to sway opinion among the remaining climate change skeptics.

However, several climate scientists praised the new work.

In a blunt departure from most climate research, Hansen’s study — based on statistics, not the more typical climate modeling — blames these three heat waves purely on global warming:

Last year’s devastating Texas-Oklahoma drought.

The 2010 heat waves in Russia and the Middle East, which led to thousands of deaths.

The 2003 European heat wave blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, especially among the elderly in France.

This graph confirms Mary Nichols statement as Katy noted that the It is like throwing the money into a landfill. $billions that CA is spending on CO2 emission control are exactly how Katy has titled the article: money down a rathole. Nothing California can do will affect global temperatures one iota. Every dime spent by the state and local governments, and every cap and trade ripoff hidden tax passed to businesses and consumers is a waste. When are the people of CA going to wise up and put their foot down on this emission control scene from Groucho Marx?
Alice in Wonderland? So what is the puzzle of Wonderland.? What are Brown, Nichols and the Legislature getting out of this wild spree of trashing the state’s resources and the peoples wealth as they play Don Quixote? Some kind of enviro feel-good? They feel good about throwing our money away for nothing??? Somebody is getting something out of it, but it is not the people, of Califonria and apparently not the schools (and it is sure not the global temperature).
So the Governor wants billions in tax increases (Prop 30) to pay off his public union friends. And the threat is if the voters do not vote in the taxes, he will not reduce spending for his cronies, he will just take what he wants from the schools –that is his plan, his threat to the people. Before he takes one dime from the schools, he must defund CARB and put AB 32 entirely on ice as enviroganda nonsense and an environmental perversion.
I encourage Californians to vote no on Prop 30.

This is not Pravda or Investia…it is CWD!

Global warming was hatched most likely in a curry smelling hell hole in North Berkley by a nest of blue hair hippies….

Well, they’re getting what they deserve. Global warming ins a fraud and if they go along with it this is what happens.

Just like the idiot Caulifornia (as Ahnode sez) voters they are going to get it good and hard. And Algore is laughing all the way to his mansions (after stopping at the bank first).

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nuff said!