<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Real Science]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[stevengoddard]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Hansen &#8211; The Broken Record Of Spectacularly Failed&nbsp;Predictions]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>In 1988, Hansen predicted drought &#8220;<em>in the next decade and beyond</em>&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lfwwAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=BuEFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3267,222782&amp;dq=hansen+sea+level+rise&amp;hl=en">Kentucky New Era &#8211; Google News Archive Search</a></p>
<p>The 1990s turned out to be the most drought-free decade in US history.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=pmdi&amp;month=9&amp;year=2012&amp;filter=12&amp;state=110&amp;div=0">Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI)</a></p>
<p>Ten years later he wrote this :</p>
<blockquote><p>Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s &#8220;Dust Bowl&#8221; that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck&#8217;s <cite>Grapes of Wrath.</cite></p>
<p><a href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_07/">NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Now he is back making the same stupid predictions which he got wrong three decades ago.</p>
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