Anybody who's followed the Mann-Made Global Warming religion knows the name of AlGore's right-hand man, Dr. James Hansen.
Some of us have known that name for decades. Because back in the 1970's, he was at the forefront of fear-mongering over the coming ice age.
On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming." It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man's use of fossil fuels.
The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in "the next 50 years" fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six degrees.
Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, Rasool claimed, "could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
Aiding Rasool's research, the Post reported, was a "computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen," who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time.So what about those greenhouse gases that man pumps into the skies? Weren't they worried about them causing a greenhouse effect that would heat the planet, as Hansen, Al Gore and a host of others so fervently believe today?
"They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere," the Post said in the story.
It's worth noting that in 2006, leftist billionaire George Soros gave Hansen $720,000. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Any idea as to what the going rate is for "scientific concensus", these days?
