James Hansen wishes he had been wrong. He wasn’t.
NASA’s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple of months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases.
The hotter world that Hansen envisioned in 1988 has more or less come true. Three decades later, most climate scientists who have been interviewed rave about the accuracy of Hansen’s predictions given the technology of the time.
Hansen won’t say, “I told you so.”
“I don’t want to be right in that sense,” he told The Associated Press in an interview
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