Cleveland Weather Examiner: Will D.C. global warming protest be the end of NASA's climate chief?

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has repeatedly called for Hansen to reconsider his involvement with the protest: "If he wants to have a demonstration concerning global warming, coming to the Capitol is not a right choice. The bottom line is if Hansen wants to protest global warming, he should go to the National Cathedral and take it up with God rather than going to Capitol Hill.”

Rohrabacher, a member of the House's Committee on Science and Technology, has also called for Hansen to “step out” of his role.

Will tomorrow’s protest prove to be Hansen’s undoing? With so many lawmakers calling motives and misrepresented data into question, Hansen's departure seems like a long time coming. The Capitol Climate Action protest makes clear Hansen’s inability to separate his position as a scientist and his role as a political activist. If nothing else, the protest might be a forced reflection of Hansen’s larger problem: his inability to distinguish fact from fiction, genuine alarm from lobbyist-driven agenda.

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John Bresnahan correctly points out that it seems that a disproportionate number of GW events coincide with winter storms (and no, we're not going to provide other examples).

Bres passes along an Email from the organizers of PowerShift'09, who say they're going ahead with an outdoor Capitol rally -- despite the eight (?) inches of snow...