That's a huge goal post move. Hansen has never denied making the prediction, only over what timeframe he said it would be over, so your doubt is misplaced. He d

That's a huge goal post move. Hansen has never denied making the prediction, only over what timeframe he said it would be over, so your doubt is misplaced. He did really say that. Your dates are all off by the way. The interview dates from 2001. You're looking at the date archive.org snapshotted it, not the date the article was published. The recalled conversation dates from around the time Hansen was doing his testimony to congress (end of the 1980s/early 90s). It's just an example. There's an ample supply. David Viner, a UK climatologist, predicted that "children just aren't going to know what snow is" ... in March 2000. The same news article quotes Jarich Oosten, an anthropologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, saying that "even if we no longer see snow, it will remain culturally important". And David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, said "ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow". Those children grew up and it still snows in Europe just like it always did. Climatologists have a long track record of making very long term predictions, insisting that nobody wait before acting to find out whether or not they're any good at predicting, and then eventually being proven dramatically wrong. It's a meme for a reason and this constant insistence that they never made wrong predictions is tiresome revisionism.