As for James Hansen - he is looking more and more like the lunatic global warming religionist who is making his data match his beliefs. They do not correspond with the 3 other major recognised sources of world temperature data which all seem to correspond with each other.  
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/27/do2708.xml 
In fact Hansen has been revising all pre1970 figures downward and post 1970 figures upwards. Not exactly honest science.

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