{"id":414016,"date":"2025-11-20T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414016"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:45:53","slug":"paris-agreement-dead-at-ten-james-hansen-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414016","title":{"rendered":"Paris Agreement: Dead at Ten (James Hansen was right)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"537\" data-attachment-id=\"414019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414019\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?fit=1361%2C1010&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1361,1010\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?fit=723%2C537&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=723%2C537&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A gravestone inscribed with 'PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT 2015 - 2025' surrounded by flower arrangements on a green lawn.\" class=\"wp-image-414019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C760&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C570&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=640%2C475&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?resize=1200%2C891&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa-1.jpeg?w=1361&amp;ssl=1 1361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/hansen-james\/paris-accord-10-hansen-right\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[The Paris agreement]&nbsp;is a fraud really, a fake\u2026. It\u2019s just worthless words.\u201d ( \u2013 James Hansen, below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COP30, a CO2-fest of sorts, is failing. Major emitters have not shown up. Virtually all nations and regions are in serious noncompliance with their Paris Agreement goals according to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/climateactiontracker.org\/publications\/mid-year-check-on-2035-climate-plans\/\">Climate Tracker<\/a>, and the gap is widening. The new pitch is less about emissions as about the fantasy of cheap wind and solar and batteries heralding a new energy era. Yet the&nbsp;<em>energy transition<\/em>&nbsp;has been demoted to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/milkeninstitute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-05\/powering-the-future-energy-transition-to-energy-addition_Transcript_GC25.pdf\">energy addition<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Daniel Yergin) and now&nbsp;<em>energy duplication<\/em>. Think rising energy prices from climate policy\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hansen on Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Hansen is a realist when it comes to the United Nations\u2019 global warming negotiations; wind and solar energies; and the lobbying frenzy surrounding the issue. His statements should be remembered as the Paris Climate Agreement, the successor to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, turns ten years old this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;in late 2015, the father of the climate alarm startled the rejoicing Progressive Left with this verdict post-COP21:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[The Paris agreement]&nbsp;is a fraud really, a fake. It\u2019s just bullshit for them to say: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/dec\/06\/paris-climate-change-summit-richard-branson\">We\u2019ll have a 2C warming target<\/a>&nbsp;and then try to do a little better every five years.\u201d It\u2019s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continue with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~jeh1\/mailings\/2015\/20151127_Isolation.pdf\">these pronouncements<\/a>&nbsp;from Hansen in the same year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch what happens in Paris carefully to see if all that the leaders do is sign off on the pap that UN bureaucrats are putting together, indulgences and promises to reduce future emissions, and then clap each other on the back and declare success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big Green consists of several \u2018environmental\u2019 organizations, including Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), each with $100+M budgets, each springing from high-minded useful beginnings, each with more high-priced lawyers than you can shake a stick at. EDF \u2026was chief architect of the disastrous Kyoto lemon. NRDC proudly claims credit for Obama\u2019s EPA strategy and foolishly allows it to migrate to Paris.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other Hansen Views<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In previous posts, I have noted Hansen\u2019s recalcitrance toward cap-and-trade, whether&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~jeh1\/mailings\/2010\/20100112_PeopleVersusCap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal,<\/a>&nbsp;state (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/article\/James-Hansen-blasts-cap-and-trade-4094663.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California<\/a>),&nbsp;or in another country (<a href=\"http:\/\/csas.ei.columbia.edu\/2014\/07\/29\/facing-facebook-australias-cap-and-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australia<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/hansen-james\/quebec-ontario-cap-trade-hansen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quebec\/Ontario<\/a>). He&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2009\/nov\/29\/copenhagen-summit-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lambasted<\/a>&nbsp;Copenhagen (COP20) for its interest in cap-and-trade too. Ditto for the Paris agreement,&nbsp;Obama\u2019s signature climate achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hansen wants a global CO2 tax, complete with \u2018border adjustments\u2019 (tariffs per country) to prevent \u2018leakage\u2019. Fat chance. He knows wind and solar are too problematic and not scalable as are nuclear fission plants (which he supports). As he&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~jeh1\/mailings\/2011\/20110729_BabyLauren.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>: \u201cSuggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hansen\u2019s Doomism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The father of the climate alarm will not back down from his outlier, all-bad predictions of the human influence on climate. CO2 fertilization is neglected, and anthropogenic warming is not divided into positive, benign, and negative to reveal a real-world metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Hansen, the world is on fire from the enhanced greenhouse effect (what Michael \u201cClimategate\u201d Mann calls&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/doomerism-why-scientists-disagree-with-biden-on-1-5-c\/\">Doomerism<\/a>). In 2006, Hansen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/13\/the-threat-to-the-planet\/\">gave<\/a>&nbsp;this ultimatum:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have at most ten years\u2014not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, a decade later, the die is surely cast where&nbsp;<em>adaptation<\/em>&nbsp;is the order of the day. But no\u2026. Consider this update from Hansen in 2023 in&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;[\u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jul\/19\/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other\">We are Damned fools\u2019: Scientist Who Sounded Climate Alarm in 80s Warns of Worse to Come<\/a>,\u201d (July 19, 2023). Oliver Milman began:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because \u201cwe are damned fools\u201d for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hansen is then quoted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a lot more in the pipeline, unless we reduce the greenhouse gas amounts. These superstorms are a taste of the storms of my grandchildren. We are headed wittingly into the new reality \u2013 we knew it was coming\u2026. It means we are damned fools. We have to taste it to believe it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And continuing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things will get worse before they get better. This does not mean that the extreme heat at a particular place this year will recur and grow each year. Weather fluctuations move things around. But the global average temperature will go up and the climate dice will be more and more loaded, including more extreme events.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the doomism dance continues\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP30, a CO2-fest of sorts, is failing. Major emitters have not shown up. Virtually all nations and regions are in serious noncompliance with their Paris Agreement goals according to Climate Tracker, and the gap is widening. 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But COP21\u2019s outcome \u2014 in which 195 countries pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve a global temperature outcome \u2014 is in serious peril. COP30, now in session, finds almost all signatories out of compliance with their \u201cnationally determined contributions.\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"\u201cclean\u201d energy\"","block_context":{"text":"\u201cclean\u201d energy","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=clean-energy-2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNx1FyRqCFUHSOgEcDvQqG7ePOJHwr6b_aaQC4MnB4JuxHMwPbmeIbfRy455EyY79nRrlltijrO_zZl-3_eBTc-EE61apqFqozfAprCkjoG7vzCGCa1ydEBRcTl3Xux.jpeg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNx1FyRqCFUHSOgEcDvQqG7ePOJHwr6b_aaQC4MnB4JuxHMwPbmeIbfRy455EyY79nRrlltijrO_zZl-3_eBTc-EE61apqFqozfAprCkjoG7vzCGCa1ydEBRcTl3Xux.jpeg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNx1FyRqCFUHSOgEcDvQqG7ePOJHwr6b_aaQC4MnB4JuxHMwPbmeIbfRy455EyY79nRrlltijrO_zZl-3_eBTc-EE61apqFqozfAprCkjoG7vzCGCa1ydEBRcTl3Xux.jpeg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNx1FyRqCFUHSOgEcDvQqG7ePOJHwr6b_aaQC4MnB4JuxHMwPbmeIbfRy455EyY79nRrlltijrO_zZl-3_eBTc-EE61apqFqozfAprCkjoG7vzCGCa1ydEBRcTl3Xux.jpeg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNx1FyRqCFUHSOgEcDvQqG7ePOJHwr6b_aaQC4MnB4JuxHMwPbmeIbfRy455EyY79nRrlltijrO_zZl-3_eBTc-EE61apqFqozfAprCkjoG7vzCGCa1ydEBRcTl3Xux.jpeg?fit=1200%2C802&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":430215,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430215","url_meta":{"origin":414016,"position":2},"title":"Trump Rejects Global Climate Bureaucracy: U.S. Withdraws from UNFCCC to Prioritize Sovereignty","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In early January 2026, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United States from the UNFCCC (the foundational 1992 treaty on climate change), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and over 60 other international organizations and agreements deemed contrary to U.S. interests. This followed a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"\u201cconsensus\u201d science\"","block_context":{"text":"\u201cconsensus\u201d science","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=consensus-science-2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Trump-Rejects-Global-Climate-Bureaucracy-U.S.-Withdraws-from-UNFCCC-to-Prioritize-Sovereignty1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Trump-Rejects-Global-Climate-Bureaucracy-U.S.-Withdraws-from-UNFCCC-to-Prioritize-Sovereignty1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Trump-Rejects-Global-Climate-Bureaucracy-U.S.-Withdraws-from-UNFCCC-to-Prioritize-Sovereignty1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Trump-Rejects-Global-Climate-Bureaucracy-U.S.-Withdraws-from-UNFCCC-to-Prioritize-Sovereignty1.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":266959,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=266959","url_meta":{"origin":414016,"position":3},"title":"Climate Fact-Check June 2023 Edition","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019ll close out by returning to James Hansen\u2019s June 1988 testimony. As it turns out, June 2023 was 1.53\u00b0F\u00a0cooler\u00a0in the U.S. than June 1988.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-350.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-350.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-350.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-350.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":286651,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=286651","url_meta":{"origin":414016,"position":4},"title":"James Hansen Hots it Up Even Higher","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a new\u00a0paper\u00a0in\u00a0Oxford Open Climate Change, the strategies humanity must pursue to reduce climate change will have to include more than reducing greenhouse gases. This new paper comes from the \u201cfather of global warming\u201d James Hansen. From Watts Up With That? New\u00a0paper from the \u201cfather of global warming\u201d argues\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Aerosols\"","block_context":{"text":"Aerosols","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=aerosols"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OIG-2023-07-29T140658.612.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OIG-2023-07-29T140658.612.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OIG-2023-07-29T140658.612.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/OIG-2023-07-29T140658.612.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":337557,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337557","url_meta":{"origin":414016,"position":5},"title":"Japanese Scientist Concludes IPCC Is Using \u201cErroneous\u201d Parameters And Climate Sensitivities","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/25\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The anthropogenic global warming (AGW) scare was created in part by Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe using a one dimensional radiative-convective model (1DRCM) having no ocean (1964\/1967). He obtained a no-feedback climate sensitivity of 1.3\u00b0C for doubling of CO2\u00a0using the fixed lapse rate assumption of 6.5\u00b0C\/km and a radiative forcing of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate Sensitivities\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate Sensitivities","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-sensitivities"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-629.png?fit=1024%2C415&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-629.png?fit=1024%2C415&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-629.png?fit=1024%2C415&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-629.png?fit=1024%2C415&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414020,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414016\/revisions\/414020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/414019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}