PJ Media » A Brief Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File

NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that astronomer and global warming activist Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA. This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests.

Also troubling, and specifically detailed below, is that he failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in global travel provided to him by outside parties –  including to London, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, the Austrian Alps, Bilbao, California, Australia and elsewhere, often business or first-class and also often paying for his wife as well — to receive honoraria to speak about the topic of his taxpayer-funded employment, or get cash awards for his activism and even his testimony and other work for NASA.

Six US states leave the Western Climate Initiative - Electric Power | Platts News Article & Story

Six states have withdrawn from the Western Climate Initiative, leaving California and four Canadian provinces as the remaining members of the regional greenhouse gas reduction organization, Patrick Cummins, WCI's project manager, said Friday.

The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary | From the Guardian | The Guardian

O'Leary must be worried about the emissions trading scheme due to be introduced by the government in January, to encourage airlines to reduce their environmental impact. "The whole pandering to the idiotic environmental lobby, which has been trying to persuade us wrongly that global warming is a fact of life, is stupid. It's not that I say there isn't global warming: I say that there isn't evidence to support it. And even if there is, and it warmed by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing, and the Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella."

When should we blame climate change for natural disasters? - The Washington Post

In a phone interview, Hoerling explained the challenges of sorting out just how much blame to assign global warming for any given disaster: “Imagine you have a lot of historical data and you’ve decided that a heat wave can never get bigger than 9°C,” he says. “That’s the biggest heat wave possible from natural factors. So then you find that, because of human influences, temperatures have warmed 1°C. And now along comes a 10°C heat wave. You can say that this never would have happened without human influence. But you could also say that 90 percent of it was due to natural variability.”