having studied under steven schneider and experiencing it, and others, i was prepared for the public scrutiny. we did a study on climate change and the proportionate of scientists who agree with it. 98%. i was certainly not prepared for the personal nature and ec of the backlash. >> what happened -- and the immediacy of a backlash. >> what happened? what were the consequences? >> our study did two things. there was an incredibly high agreement behind what they have articulated as the main component about climate change. the second was that those were published in doubting and expressing their lack of agreement essentially were not very well qualified. the vast majority of them did not publish in science literature. they had not studied in science. .he backlash was immediatel the blogger sphere -- the blogosphere was amplified. it was not very friendly. >> when people poster picture and your e-mail address and encourage others to send you nasty e mills, i have -- nasty e-mails, i have had over two hundred messages from people i did not know in a single morning. they were from unpleasa

hanson received a steven schneider award for outstanding communication.he was a pioneering scientist at stanford. please welcome dr. hansen. [applause] >> welcome back. it has been two years since you were here. i would like to begin with hurricane sandy. you lived in manhattan. where were you when it was approaching? >> i was on our farm in pennsylvania. where we ended up losing power for the better part of a week. four big trees blown over. railing's blown off. our deck and windows blown out of the barn. even in pennsylvania, separate it from the atlantic ocean by new jersey, all this still -- new jersey did not do much to offer it. but that is where i was. the lights went out. we heard these noises on the second floor as these billings were getting blown off. it was an interesting experience. >> your first big storm like that? >> i think this was the biggest one i was a in. even though i'm from western iowa upper but we get these tornado warnings all the time to go to the basement. -- where we would get these tornado warnings all the time to go to the

stevens pass. bonnie schneider tracking the weather systems throughout the country.ns us with the holiday forecast. delays, delays, delays, bonnie. >> this is not right now. we are anticipating the delays. the good news is, if you have a morning flight this christmas eve, i think you'll do okay. throughout the day, the delays will build across the south and even the midwest and especially out west because there's snow happening throughout the rockies and salt lake city, and you'll see that building in, especially west of denver up into the mountains. severe storms possible overnight into texas, southwest louisiana. as this front advances eastward, it's pulling down quite a bit of rain through north carolina and into tennessee. i wanted to show you this division here. we have wet christmas, and we have a white christmas. where will you see each? it's so spread out throughout the country. places like kansas and oklahoma, arkansas and even parts of washington certainly will see a white christmas whereas the rain continues along the south and into the gulf coast. also fo