James E. Hansen is the NASA GISS chief. It is important to distinguish
that Hansen from JE Hansen, the physiologist, who is a reputable
scientist and who has used the word "thermodynamics" many times.
Thermodynamics deals with heat and work and is as important in studies
of physiology as it is elsewhere.

Google Scholar provides a mechanism to do a word search on the
collective works of any individual.

The first published use of the word thermodynamics by NASA GISS chief
James E Hansen occured in 1992 in "Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic
Aerosols" which can be found at:

http://academic.engr.arizona.edu/HWR...s/charlson.pdf

Hansen is one of six authors and he is neither the lead author nor the
corresponding author. He went along for the ride.

Hansen defended his Ph.D thesis in 1967. It is unpublished. However, a
published account of his thesis work can be found he

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1967/...Matsushima.pdf

or here

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c...iletyp e=.pdf

Word search of Hansen's Ph.D. work reveals no use of the word
"thermodynamics" or phrases like "statistical analysis". Hansen has
much to say on global warming and he aggregates and massages reading
from 1500 thermometers, yet he is a ****ing dummy who has no respect
for or understanding of thermodynamics, mathematical statistics or of
any other science disciple that might make him think twice. He was
hired by NASA at a time when USA was spending 4% of its GDP on the
space race. He testified at a senate hearing in 1988 chaired by Al
Gore, four years before his first connection with the idea of
"thermodynamics".

It would be charitable to describe Hansen as a pseudoscientist.

NASA made a mistake to hire Hansen.

Leon wrote:

[some snippage]

Hansen defended his Ph.D thesis in 1967. It is unpublished. However, a
published account of his thesis work can be found he

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1967/...Matsushima.pdf

or here

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c..._query?db_key=...

Word search of Hansen's Ph.D. work reveals no use of the word
"thermodynamics" or phrases like "statistical analysis". Hansen has
much to say on global warming and he aggregates and massages reading
from 1500 thermometers, yet he is a ****ing dummy who has no respect
for or understanding of thermodynamics, mathematical statistics or of
any other science disciple that might make him think twice. He was
hired by NASA at a time when USA was spending 4% of its GDP on the
space race. He testified at a senate hearing in 1988 chaired by Al
Gore, four years before his first connection with the idea of
"thermodynamics".

It would be charitable to describe Hansenas a pseudoscientist.

NASA made a mistake to hire Hansen.

Strong language.

The title of Hansen's paper that communicates results of his Ph.D.
research is:

"THE ATMOSPHERE AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF VENUS
A DUST INSULATION MODEL"

Selected excerpts from Hansen's Ph.D. thesis work might help to
confirm or deny whether Hansen is one whose scientific judgement is
trustworthy.

Exhibit A, page 1145

"In the dust insulation model, at least the lower atmosphere should be
in dry adiabatic state, so that
dT/dh = -g/c_p; "

Hansen is correct, the dry adiabatic lapse rate, dT/dh equals the
negative of the accelleration of (Venus) gravity -g divided by the
heat capacity at constant pressure c_p.

The major constituent of Venusian atmosphere is CO2. However, late in
the same run-on sentence, Hansen wrote,
"dT/dh was taken to be constant with a value (8.7 K./km) appropriate
for nitrogen."

Approximating the properties of a CO2 atmosphere by using properties
of N2 is bad thermodynamics but Hansen is not competent in
thermodynamics.

Exhibit B, page 1155 in the conclusion section of Hansen's

"If the surface pressure is ~20 atmospheres, then 10 gm would
represent a mass about 0.05 per cent as large as that of the
atmosphere above unit area."

Hansen's Ph.D. thesis was an attempt to explain the surface
temperature of Venus. Throughout, Hansen equivocates on the vital
question of the thickness of the Venusian atmosphere with guestimates
that range from less than 10 km to a final guestimate of ~20 km.

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus

"The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of
the Earth."

If Hansen had correctly guestimated the surface pressure of Venus and
if he had boned up on his thermodynamics he might have been able to
integrate the dry adiabatic temperature lapse rate from surface to
cloud top and discovered a rather trivial thermodynamic explanation
for the surface temperature of Venus. If done truthfully, his account
of his Ph.D. research should have been one page long.

VERDICT:

Hansen knew enough about the dry adiabic temperature lapse rate get
the equation correct, but he had no motivation to do a literature
search for tables of c_p(p,T) known for CO2. CO2 is an important
industrial gas (think beer carbonation); see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_(data_page)
and contained references to thermodynamics properties of CO2.

Hansen's report of his Ph.D. thesis, records for all to see, Logical
Inconsistencies, an aversion to thermodynamics; and abuse of
statistical analysis, to name only a short list of faults.

Given his record of pseudoscience, should we place the future of
planet Earth in Hansen's hands?

Certainly Not.

On Feb 8, 9:58Â*pm, Leon wrote:
James E. Hansen is the NASA GISS chief. It is important to distinguish
that Hansen from JE Hansen, the physiologist, who is a reputable
scientist and who has used the word "thermodynamics" many times.
Thermodynamics deals with heat and work and is as important in studies
of physiology as it is elsewhere.

Google Scholar provides a mechanism to do a word search on the
collective works of any individual.

The first published use of the word thermodynamics by NASA GISS chief
James E Hansen occured in 1992 in "Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic
Aerosols" which can be found at:

http://academic.engr.arizona.edu/HWR...readings/charl...

Hansen is one of six authors and he is neither the lead author nor the
corresponding author. He went along for the ride.

Hansen defended his Ph.D thesis in 1967. It is unpublished. However, a
published account of his thesis work can be found he

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1967/...Matsushima.pdf

or here

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c..._query?db_key=....

Word search of Hansen's Ph.D. work reveals no use of the word
"thermodynamics" or phrases like "statistical analysis". Hansen has
much to say on global warming and he aggregates and massages reading
from 1500 thermometers, yet he is a ****ing dummy who has no respect
for or understanding of thermodynamics, mathematical statistics or of
any other science disciple that might make him think twice. He was
hired by NASA at a time when USA was spending 4% of its GDP on the
space race. He testified at a senate hearing in 1988 chaired by Al
Gore, four years before his first connection with the idea of
"thermodynamics".

It would be charitable to describe Hansen as a pseudoscientist.

NASA made a mistake to hire Hansen.

ø Algore hired him for NASA when he promised
to support global warming. I believe he gets a
regular paycheck from Gore as well as royalties
from Gore's mockumentry.


ø The issue is really irrelevant.
Nobody can control the wind
Nobody can control the rain or snow
Nobody (collectively) can control climate.
Global temps are within natural variations
Oceans heating are a prelude to glaciation

 Get used to it!!

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