Father Of Global Warming Admits: It Used To Be Hotter Than It Is Now 
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Science: To listen to the climate change alarmist  community, one would think that Earth has never been so warm as it is  now. But it’s been warmer, and sea levels have been higher, facts that  the leader of the movement acknowledges.
James Hansen, the famed NASA scientist who stirred the climate scare  when in 1988 he told a Senate committee that “global warming” — yes, he  used those words — “is already happening now,” has never backed off his  claims, despite the fact that he’s been demonstrably wrong. No one this  side of Al Gore has had a larger impact on trafficking in fear and  trying so hard to sow panic.
The narrative since that day in 1988 is that Earth is entering a  dangerous warm era created by man’s carbon dioxide emissions. Every heat  wave, cold snap, drought, hurricane, heavy snow, torrential rain, and  change in sea level has been supposedly caused by man. And all are  allegedly unprecedented events.
Except they’re not. It’s been warmer, and extreme weather has visited us  before, all in a time long before man began to drive cars and operate  power plants that helped move him from an almost primitive existence to a  modern one.
Hansen has even admitted this.
“The last interglacial period, 120,000 years ago, that’s the last time  it was warmer than today, sea level was 6 to 9 meters higher,” he said  in an interview with online magazine 
Yale Environment 360.
So it has been warmer, and sea levels have been higher. And those  conditions were entirely natural. Yet the alarmists want us to believe  that the predicted warmth of today — 
which has yet to occur  — is man-caused. How do they know? And why do they never mention that  we are leaving the Little Ice Age and entering another interglacial  period, an era that should be warmer as we gain distance from the cold  period?
The 
Watts Up With That  blog points out another hole in the narrative: While implying that  we’re headed for another 6-to-9-meters increase in sea level in the  coming — or just-arrived — interglacial period, “Hansen failed to say”  that “paleoclimatological studies have indicated that it took a number  of millennia for sea levels to rise those 6 to 9 meters when  temperatures were warmer than today.”
Yet we’ve been told until the alarmists have no more hot air to exhale  that we are running out of time to act, and maybe already have.
The Hansens of our world will never give in, though. He told  Yale  Environment 360 that “we conclude … that the timescale for ice-sheet  disintegration is probably a lot shorter than has been assumed in the  intergovernmental discussions.”
Watts Up With That blogger Bob Tisdale says nuts to that: “Even  proponents of the hypothesis of human-induced global warming found the  recent Hansen study (Ice melt, sea-level rise and superstorms: evidence  from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that  2°C global warming could be dangerous) to be nonsense. Even the title of  the paper includes the oft-used weasel words ‘could be.’ ”
Meanwhile, Anthony Watts himself says that Hansen “seems interested in 
promoting alarmism at all costs. There’s been a whiff of this throughout his entire career, but this latest paper is just too much to take seriously.”
Perhaps the best analysis, though, is from science blogger David Appell,  who says that the canonization of the Hansen study is just more 
barnyard droppings, and the paper itself “goes out on a limb that the science can’t necessarily support.”
Hansen has been out on that skinny limb for almost 30 years, and it  keeps breaking. He just hopes no one is noticing the duct tape and paper  clips he’s rigged up to hide the damage.