You are browsing the archive for 10 August 2012 - Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal.
10 August 2012
NASA Climate Expert James Hansen & An Amazing Forecast
In 1988 James Hansen published a paper with a prediction that many of his fellow scientists thought was a bit over the top. I want to explain the prediction and then give a summary of the paper he published this week showing it was (almost amazingly) correct. Imagine that the odds of a cold winter, or hot summer, are represented by a 6 sided dice. Two sides are white for …