Pictures from Patrick Michael's Congressional Testimony, July 29, 1998
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Figure 1. Hansen’s global temperature projections from his 1988 model
(Hansen et al., 1988.)

Figure 2. Hansen’s global temperature projections from his 1988 model versus three independent observations of mean temperature during the period 1988 through 1997.

Figure 3. Satellite measured temperatures for the Southern Hemisphere show a statistically significant decline since records began in 1979.

Figure 4. Annual temperature variation is declining, not increasing, on a global scale. From Michaels et al., 1998.

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