Recent Cooling Trend was due to La Nina, says Hansen
Now that I am back to work, I figured it was time to check back in with Dr. Hansen, who has consistently generated a ton of commentary on this blog over the two years that I have been doing this. I prepared this thread before I left for Indianapolis last week. Brett.
Dr. James Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who has been interviewed on Headline Earth and the subject of many of my blogs has chimed in on the recent cooling trend that has been talked about quite a bit over the past few months.
Hansen notes in his most recent pdf that the global cooling trend that began in 2007 is just a natural fluctuation or "noise" that will soon disappear. Hansen states that the cooling trend through the year was due to the strengthening La Nina and the unusual cold of January was aided by a winter weather fluctuation.
According to Hansen, the large short-term temperature fluctuations have no bearing on the global warming matter or the impacts of global warming that he discussed in an Illinois Wesleyan presentation back in February.
Do you agree with Hansen's viewpoint?
