On Aug 22, 5:22*pm, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
"Alastair" wrote ...
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I have been watching this talk by James Hansen, a NASA director.
http://www.pages-osm.org/osm/publiclecture.html
He stopped campaigning about global warming in the late 1980s
because
he was such a poor public speaker, but now feels he must do it again
so he can face his grandchildren with a clear conscience. *Here's a
chance to see why he gave up, and why he took it up again!

... thanks for that link, Alastair: have just got around to watching
it. Had to spread out over a couple of days. I can see why some have
commented on Dr. Hansen's public speaking ability, and it is useful to
be able to stop/rewind to get the full impact of what he was
presenting.

Not a great deal new to anyone who's followed the debate over the
years, though I wasn't aware of the gravity perturbation sensing of
the Greenland ice sheet - that was fascinating. A short-length data
set atm of course, but one to watch.

There is another presentation from the PAGES conference here
http://oregonstate.edu/media/qqrbg-hiq
which deals with the melting ice sheets. The speaker is much better
but he seems more excited by the science that the consequences.

The tales of 'interception' of reports/releases from NASA via the
White House was also of interest - not surprising I'm afraid and I
suspect it goes on this side of the Atlantic too.

Well we did have a dodgey dossier, but what is coming out of the
US is much worse than that. There is another video which goes
over that:
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=13459
The speaker got her first degree from Imperial College, London, and
is well respected. The first half of her talk is just a summary
of the science, but the second half is about how the science has
been distorted.

It's all a bit depressing so I won't burden this newsgroup with any
more unless prompted.

Cheers, Alastair.



Martin.

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