Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? - WSJ

Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? - WSJ:
"James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow.
Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance. 
He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”
With that testimony and an accompanying paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Mr. Hansen lit the bonfire of the greenhouse vanities, igniting a world-wide debate that continues today about the energy structure of the entire planet.
President Obama’s environmental policies were predicated on similar models of rapid, high-cost warming. 
But the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his forecasts have done—and to reconsider environmental policy accordingly.
...Global surface temperature has not increased significantly since 2000, discounting the larger-than-usual El Nino of 2015-16.
...And it isn’t just Mr. Hansen who got it wrong. 
Models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have, on average, predicted about twice as much warming as has been observed since global satellite temperature monitoring began 40 years ago.
...On the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s galvanizing testimony, it’s time to acknowledge that the rapid warming he predicted isn’t happening..."
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