Should NASA Scientist Dr. James Hansen Be Fired or Arrested?

Question

It was bad enough that Hansen took $250,000.00 from John Kerry's foundation, then endorsed the candidate for President.

It was even worse when he said he exaggerated global warming when he was a consultant for Algore's "Truth", "It Could Happen Tomorrow", and the Weather Channel.

Now it's being told he took $720,000.00 from a "politicization of science" program run by George Soros and Moveon.com to make the claim that he was being "muzzled" before the 2004 and 2006 elections.

Hansen is tainted with the rot of politics. He can no longer maintain his position because he has shown he is not objective.

His data, his life’s work is flawed as well and should be tossed or re-evaluated. No doubt he used political pressure and influence to steer "peer review" and the "consensus" of others, if not just out right bought it.

He should be charged with fraud.

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Cosmo - If Hansen declared this information, it would have been known about years ago. There was no discloser, no special account, and no openness in this transaction.

You're making excuses so you can keep believing what you perceive as true.

Answer 1

You see many of these people could care less that a government official is getting almost a million dollars to lie about global warming. These same mindless followers of the global warming religion complain bitterly that any scientists who is a "denier" is getting paid by Exxon. It is truly sickening to listen to the bah bah bah of these sheep. He should be fired and thrown in prison for the rest of his life. Since he is a democrat activist now, Bush, in his brain dead new tone would never consider firing someone for abusing his position.

Answer 2

Your ideas seems to be that if you "shoot the messenger" the problem will go away. I could write a few hundred facts that clearly point to Global Warming and you probably will neither read or understand them. It is not because I think you are too dumb to understand. Your sentences are well constructed and there is good logic at places. You simply are too scared or do not want to believe our children and, for sure, our grand children are all going to bake because there are too many people like you that will not take the steps needed nor demand our government to take the steps urgently needed, and ESSENTIAL to the survival of life in the planet. The thought of Venus, next door, with a Carbon Dioxide atmosphere being at an stable temperature in balance with the sun radiation, i.e., it emits as much heat as it gets from the sun, must be, understandably, frightening if you were to believe that its temperature is 846 Deg. Fahrenheit. Hotter than the ovens at Auschwitz (somehow the word "warmer" seems inadequate and pizza oven disrespectful). Have a nice day with a cool beer and a hot pizza! Dr. Hansen is one of the rare heroes in our lifetime, we need more people willing to risk their careers, or life, for the sake of family, nation and humanity and for the sake of the truth. Another is Gen. Eric Shinseki.

Answer 3

There are pretty strict rules about how federally-funded scientists can accept outside funding, speaking fees, and prizes. All these things must be declared annually in a conflict-of-interest statement, which must be filled out and signed annually under penalty of purjury. Many of these types of funds must be deposited in a special account controlled by the scientist's research organization (NASA in this case), which is then used only for reseach support. These accounts are not public information, but they are audited by the GSA (General Services Administration). I would be very surprised if Hansen were still employed by NASA and had been personally enriched by any of these funds.

On the other hand, government scientists are not forbidden from participating in politics. Two restrictions must be obeyed: (1) political activity cannot use government resources (e.g. computers or vehicles), (2) scientists cannot petition the government for additional funding for their research (e.g. they cannot ask their congressman to support their research agency).

Oh, great. I get a thumbs-down just for telling you true things about government policy.

Answer 4

Wow, Jello, now that the shoe is on the other foot, you should expect threats, ridicule, propaganda, and outright lies about you to be posted everywhere. Well, basically the same thing that has happened to everyone else who has dared to shed a little light on the "science" of global warming.

It is downright hilarious that after years of hearing about Exxon funding global warming skeptics that now we find out THE #1 shill for AGW has been funded by the biggest anti-American socialist in the world. Say what you will about Exxon, but at least it has a stake in the survival of the capitalist system and the United States. George Soros? Hardly. If he had his way, we would turn into the USSR where he can be the true power behind his appointed Democratic president.

Now, we will have to see how the global warming alarmists react to this news. Obviously they are going to deny it and probably say that Investor's Business Daily has been bought by Exxon or George Bush and his evil cronies.

Regardless of the alarmists' excuses, nothing changes the fact that Hansen has been funded by a man who does not have the best interests of the US in mind.

EDIT - And as we can see, EnragedPigeon has already proven my point. Global warming skeptics can be minimized and discounted because of unfounded and baseless reports of Exxon funding, but since Hansen is on their side, there has to be canceled checks and bank statements proving Hansen is a shill for Soros. Hypocrite.

Answer 5

Send Hansen to Iran so Ahmadinejad will have a master fabricator of lies to help him with his rhetorical jihad against America. Hansen would consider it an honor...

Answer 6

fraud is being generous.

this deviant is the main actor in the global warming con.

i find it hard to believe that he can sleep at night knowing he has to falsify data to forward his obviously flawed opinions.

the mob rules in science today, not fact.

Answer 7

Hansen was also one of the scientists that was warning us of going into the ice age in the 70's.

Answer 8

Deliveryexpert is right, Liberals are hypocrites so it would only make sense that Dr Hansen would never be fired or arrested because he supports liberals, and the liberal b/s propaganda man made global warming.

Answer 9

And the author of this screed is whom, exactly? And the sources are what and where, exactly?

It's easy to slander when you don't have to provide a shred of evidence for anything you say -- and when you don't have enough pride (or guts) to put your name on your work.

Answer 10

Some are above the law.
like UN funded scientists.
UN can't pay it's massive NYC parking ticket tab but has plenty of money for the "GW climatologists" that agree with them.
Credible sources....New york times......
Reuters..... Algore.....not.