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Everyone is missing the point on the model used in '71 and how new information lead to new conclusions.
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No, you are missing the point, because you simply haven't bothered to read any of the relevant papers. If you had read the Rasool paper you would have seen that all they used of Hansen's was a little computer code he wrote that calculates the value of a basic physical function, the Mie function, which describes how light scatters off a spherical object. Needless to say, this is not a "climate model" and it says nothing about climate change on earth.
And if you had read Hansen's first paper (1976) about greenhouse gases on earth, you would have seen that he concluded there that nitrous oxide and methane from human emissions could cause global warming.
Funny how such a breathless news scoop can evaporate so fast into nothing, isn't it?
The real story here is that the entire right-wing blogosphere has fallen for it. A nice example of how an overwhelming desire to believe something can make one as gullible as a seven year old.
Hansen was sure right about the "court jesters"
