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There are many excellent scientists who believe that the climate is not a model. Hansen is not one of them, apparently, since he believes in turning the economy upside down based upon highly variable and fudged results of climate models. That is fine as long as he speaks for himself and not an agency of a government that takes a more cautious, less hair-trigger approach to climate models. May I suggest that New York Times claiming to "know a scientist by reputation" then using that purported acquaintance to launch an attack against someone who was already his political enemy, does not amount to a hill of soybeans. This is simply more of the same which you can read from the New York Times going back any number of years to before the 2000 election. The NYT has become an echo chamber for the choir of true believers to attack any and all policies of the Bush administration. If you want to surprise someone with a NYT article, link to one that supports the Bush administration. Many of your readers would fall out of their chairs and have a coronary!