Is James Hansen soon to be Fired?
Posted on March 31st, 2010 by admin
Should he have kept his rear-end in the lab and out of ‘YouTube’??
Feb 23, 2009
Calls Mount for Obama to Fire NASA Climate Chief
By James M. Taylor
Calls are mounting for President Barack Obama to fire James Hansen, the controversial figure in charge of climate studies at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Hansen has a record of allegedly doctoring temperature data to hype his argument that global warming is a crisis. The new calls for his resignation or termination come following his appearance in a video calling for civil disobedience at a protest at a power plant in Washington, DC.
“It is plainly improper for someone on the U.S. government payroll to advocate civil disobedience on behalf of a non-government advocacy group,” said Dan Miller, executive vice president of The Heartland Institute and former chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. “As long as a public official is on the public payroll, his first loyalty is to his constituency, not to some outside pressure group calling on people to break the law,” Miller said.
A video featuring Hansen is prominently displayed on the Web site of a group called Capitol Climate Action. In it, Hansen says “please join us” at a protest at a power plant in Washington, DC. The facility burns coal to generate electricity. The Web site calls on people to “surround the plant, disrupting access, and refusing to leave when asked.”
Incredibly, he has even called for Nuremberg-style trials for scientists who disagree with him about the causes and possible consequences of climate change.
“If I did what Jim has done while I was a NASA employee, I would have been drawn and quartered and then fired,” said Dr. Roy Spencer, principal research scientist for the University of Alabama…
“I have been following Jim Hansen’s travails over many years,� said Hans Labohm, a climate policy expert based in The Netherlands. “My impression is that he has been acting like a climate activist rather than a climate scientist. We in Europe tend to regard NASA as a serious scientific organization. I have always wondered how someone like Jim Hansen could be part of it. As an expert reviewer of the IPCC�s Fourth Assessment Report, I believe I express the concerns of many people.”
“Hansen’s questionable and often outrageous use of rhetoric, ploys, and tactics should call his continued employment by the taxpayer into question,” said Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies.
“It is surprising that he has been allowed to remain in such a sensitive public post,” said Terry Dunleavy, executive vice-chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition. Dunleavy, writing from New Zealand, goes on to say, “I’m not sure which is worse: Hansen’s disrespect for science or his flouting of American public service values.”
“Hansen is primarily responsible for making climate and climate change a political rather than a scientific issue, and for that alone he should be fired, especially since his position as a scientist and a bureaucrat must be apolitical,” said Dr. Timothy Ball, former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. “He has made it so that if you agree with AGW [anthropogenic global warming] you are politically left and if you disagree you are politically right and in my opinion there is no greater indictment of the politicizing of climate science,” Ball added.
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I find it troubling that a "scientist" and government employee is encouraging civil disorder, it is probably in breach of NASA’s code of conduct and other regulations for government workers.
Having someone so obviously politically motivated in charge of the global climate record scares me when someone in such a position should be completely impartial. The fact that he has also predicted continuous warming also concerns me, as even subconciously he may bias the climate record to fit the projections he conjured up, which he obviously whole heartedly believes in.
NASA should have put him out to pasture a while ago, the longer he carries on like this, the more credibility NASA lose as a respected institude of science.
Than he has the nerve to claim NASA muzzled him!
If only they had…
March 31st, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Wouldn’t that be nice?
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March 31st, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I would love to see that. Fat chance though.
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March 31st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
He should be he won’t.
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March 31st, 2010 at 7:02 pm
First, look art the wording he is using
"record of allegedly doctoring temperature data"
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=631
Allegedly doctored? Did he or didn’t he. James M. Taylor is straying very close to slander.
Then look a the clowns he is using to make his case such as Tim Ball, I’ve met the man and won’t repeat the mistake. Tim Ball was not a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg as claimed, he taught first year geography students.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1164
http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents
And Labohm (associate of Tim Ball)
http://www.desmogblog.com/hans-hj-labohm
Hansen’s job is safe.
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March 31st, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Why would Hansen be fired? Because of an editorial from James Taylor of the Heartland Institute? That’s like asking whether Peyton Manning will be fired because of an editorial by some third-string waterboy for the New Patriots. Some of this editorial is probably actually libelous.
Hansen keep piling up one award after another. Just this year he was awarded the Rossby Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Meteorological Society. I’m pretty sure he’ll leave when he wants to leave.
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March 31st, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Hansen has openly admitted he stretches the truth to scare people into acting on his beliefs. It’s no secret that he "Homogenizes" (his words) the raw data to get graph more in line to what he wants people to see and it’s known that he’ll even omit large sections of data when it doesn’t serve his purpose.
And to top it off, he isn’t even a climatologist!
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March 31st, 2010 at 8:43 pm
"said Dan Miller, executive vice president of The Heartland Institute"
Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA, sorry the hypocrisy of the source set me off for a moment. Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA Dr. Roy Spencer, Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies and Terry Dunleavy, executive vice-chairman of the International Climate Science Coalition
So out of interest Terry Dunleavy expertise to comment comes from being a journalist or being a wine maker
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1313
and International Climate Science Coalition WOW just six personal and at least one of them links back to Heatland inst.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Climate_Science_Coalition
I suppose the next claim will be they have a petition of 31000 demanding Hansen sacking
In other words you have the main vested interests of the denier community suggesting he be fired, which they have been doing for years, thankfully in the real world no one listens to these groups any more. Even groups like Exxon are starting to see what a pointless waste of time the denier groups are.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/28/climatechange.fossilfuels
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March 31st, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Good, get some real, unbiased, scientists in there and figure out this whole thing we call climate. Only then will we know what the actual effects are and get somewhere with this whole debate.
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March 31st, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Given the change in Government I think it far more likely that an investigation into groups like Heartland is far more likely and if they are found to be spreading intentional misinformation then they should get the same fate as the Enron executives.
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March 31st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
One of the legacies of Bush is that he left way to many political hacks stay in government in the CIA, NASA, attorney generals office, etc. Somehow I don’t think the left is going to return the favor. Look how they treated Bush.
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March 31st, 2010 at 10:36 pm
I find it troubling that a "scientist" and government employee is encouraging civil disorder, it is probably in breach of NASA’s code of conduct and other regulations for government workers.
Having someone so obviously politically motivated in charge of the global climate record scares me when someone in such a position should be completely impartial. The fact that he has also predicted continuous warming also concerns me, as even subconciously he may bias the climate record to fit the projections he conjured up, which he obviously whole heartedly believes in.
NASA should have put him out to pasture a while ago, the longer he carries on like this, the more credibility NASA lose as a respected institude of science.
Than he has the nerve to claim NASA muzzled him!
If only they had…
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