NASA - NASA's Hansen to Hand Over Reins of Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director

Peter Hildebrand, director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will serve as interim director until a new director is selected through a competitive process.

Twitter / Revkin: Live @NASAgoddard #sealevel ...

Live @NASAgoddard #sealevel hangout touches on 2,000-year sea level "hockeystick." more here: http://nyti.ms/10MJGTQ

www.culturalcognition.net - Cultural Cognition Blog - "A sensitive matter" indeed! The science communication risks of climate model recalibration

many of those actors--mainly nonscientists--who have been most conspicuous in questioning the past generation of models clearly were intent on sowing confusion and division. They were acting on bad faith motivations [Hey, Dan Kahan:  Who, specifically, are you talking about, and how, specifically, do you know that bad faith motivated their actions?]

James Hansen retires from science to spend more time with his politics | Alice Bell | Science | guardian.co.uk

As Jeremy Grantham put it in Nature last year, overstatement may generally be dangerous in science, but for climate change, uniquely, understatement is even riskier. By not speaking out, or under-dramatising risk, quieter scientists are simply doing a less acknowledged form of activism, possibly all the more dangerous because it runs with less scrutiny.

Scientists as activists on political issues can be really annoying. I can think of several who I really wish would just STFU.  [Because you disagree with them, Alice?]