Hansen: Still a Media Darling

Planet Gore on National Review Online

A month ago, Planet Gore reported that NASA climatologist James Hansen, a leading voice in proclaiming man’s role in climate change and a close advisor of Al Gore, had sided with the radical environmental group Greenpeace in advocating eco-vandalism to save the planet.

Hansen’s controversial testimony at a London trial in support of activists accused of causing $60,000 in property damage to an English coal facility brought immediate condemnation from some in the science community. “The ramifications are huge,” wrote Iain Murray, an environmental-science expert with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Operators of coal-fired power stations in the U. K. have just been stripped of legal protection from the criminal actions of the environmental lobby.”

Meteorologist Anthony Watts called for Hansen’s resignation, writing that “siding with vandalism is an inappropriate abuse of (his) position. Dr. Hansen has violated the code of (NASA) ethics.”

But Hansen’s radical turn was almost completely blacked out by the Mainstream Media.