<![CDATA[Wrong Way Jimmy Got Antarctica Exactly Backwards]]>In Hansen 1984, he predicted that peak sea ice loss from global warming would occur in the Weddell Sea of Antarctica, and that all of Antarctica would lose sea ice.

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pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1984/1984_Hansen_etal_1.pdf

Instead of losing sea ice, Antarctica has been gaining sea ice at a rate of 84% per century.

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And the peak sea ice gain has occurred in the Weddell Sea, right where Hansen predicted sea ice loss.

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Hansen’s career has been dominated by being wrong about almost everything, going back to his PhD thesis where he absurdly blamed Venusian heat on particulates in the atmosphere.

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