evidence: Father Of Global Warming Admits: It Used To Be Hotter Than It Is Now [...] James Hansen, the famed NASA scientist who stirred the climate scare when in 1988 he told a Senate committee that "global warming" -- yes, he used those words -- "is already happening now," has never backed off his claims, despite the fact that he's been demonstrably wrong. No one this side of Al Gore has had a larger impact on trafficking in fear and trying so hard to sow panic. [...] Hansen has even admitted this.