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Is James Hansen soon to be Fired?

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. icecap.us

Public Comments

1. Wouldn't that be nice?
2. I would love to see that. Fat chance though.
3. He should be he won't.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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!