Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global ...

“embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was
never muzzled.” Theon was the former Chief of the Climate Processes Research
Program at NASA Headquarters and former Chief of the Atmospheric Dynamics &
Radiation Branch. Theon also co-authored the book Advances in Remote Sensing
Retrieval Methods. Theon was elected a fellow of the American Meteorological
Society, given the NASA Exceptional Performance Award twice, elected an
Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and
awarded the AIAA's Losey Medal for contributions to airborne remote sensing. He
was also awarded the Radio Wave Award by the Minister of Posts and
Telecommunications of Japan for contributions to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring
Mission -- a joint NASA-Japanese Space Agency satellite. Theon has authored or
coauthored more than 50 NASA Reports, journal articles, monographs, chapters in
books, and edited two books in the scientific literature. “I appreciate the opportunity
to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man-made,‖ Theon wrote
to the Minority Office at the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15,
2009. ―I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate
his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual
performance evaluation,‖ Theon explained. [Note: Here are the results of a Google
Scholar search on Theon.] ―Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's
official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast
climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming
out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,‖ Theon
wrote. Theon declared ―climate models are useless.‖ ―My own belief concerning
anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate
system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models
either replicate poorly or completely omit,‖ Theon explained. ―Furthermore, some
scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so,
they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they
did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated
independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done.
Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine
public policy,‖ he added. ―As Chief of several of NASA Headquarters‘ programs (1982-
94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire
agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson,
and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the
private sector who worked on climate research,‖ Theon wrote of his career. ―This
required a thorough understanding of the state of the science. I have kept up with climate
science since retiring by reading books and journal articles,‖ Theon added. (LINK)
(LINK) [Update: NASA warming scientist 'suffering from a bad case of megalomania'
-- former supervisor Theon says - March 11, 2009 – Business & Media Institute &
NASA Warming Scientist Under Fire -- From Former Supervisor...'Jim Hansen
should be fired' - March 11, 2009 – Business & Media Institute ]
Award-winning Japanese Physicist Dr. Kanya Kusano, program director of the Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, publicly dissented in 2009.
Kusano‟s research “focuses on the immaturity of simulation work cited in support of
the theory of anthropogenic climate change.” Kusano, who was awarded the
Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Prize and the Inoue Research Award for Young
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