[Just mythoughts]

“James Hansen the scientist who kicked off the scare with testimony before Congress in 1988 by saying that temperatures would rise four times faster than they have.”

And the same year the IPCC was ‘birthed’.

http://www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization_history.htm

Is James Hansen the ‘daddy’ of the movement or was he working for someone else researching temperatures rising? He had to have been ‘studying’ the idea for some time prior to 1988, for to give this kind of testimony prophesying the doom of Mother Earth.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maurice Strong is the founder of the IPCC I think.

[maryz]

kicked off the scare with testimony before Congress in 1988

Summer of '88 was a "good" time to launch a GW scare! I remember it vividly -- in Boston, the temperature went to the high 90s on June 13, and highs stayed pretty much 90 or over all summer, I think well into October; an overnight low of about 73 was about as good as it got.

The heat was nationwide. I hate the heat, so I ran for the TV as soon as I got home from work to tune in to the weather. That whole summer, the jet stream stayed about at the US-Canada border, occasionally (but not often) dropping down a bit over the very northwestern tip of the country.

The other thing I recall about that awful summer may have been only local: there seemed to be almost constant reports of medical waste washing up on beaches.