I checked first, thinking this was some April Fools joke, it appears legit. (h/t to Tom Nelson and Skiphil)
Climate Alarmist Jim Hansen leaving NASA on Wed. to devote himself to legal and political activism:
Hansen retiring from NASA to press legal and activist efforts
At the same time, retirement will allow Dr. Hansen to press his cause in court. He plans to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions, for instance, as well as in fighting the development in Canada of a particularly dirty form of oil extracted from tar sands.
“As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,” he said in an interview.
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In the interview and in subsequent e-mails, Dr. Hansen made it clear that his new independence would allow him to take steps he could not have taken as a government employee. He plans to lobby European leaders — who are among the most concerned about climate change — to impose a tax on oil derived from tar sands. Its extraction results in greater greenhouse emissions than conventional oil.
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Dr. Hansen says he senses the beginnings of a mass movement on climate change, led by young people. Once he finishes his final papers as a NASA employee, he intends to give it his full support.
“At my age,” he said, “I am not worried about having an arrest record.”
Full story at The NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/james-e-hansen-retiring-from-nasa-to-fight-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all
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So, they offered him a way out or offered to sack him? Either way, Bon voyage Mr delusional.
Say what you like about him, but it’s clear he’s willing to stand up for what he believes in.
Pinch me.
I would be very pleased if Michael Mann would also follow his hero into battle full time. Maybe Trenberth would find his missing heat within the anger fueling Hansen’s quest!.
No more being muzzled. Now he’s finally free to speak his mind and promote his political views. /bitter sarc
He is 72 – so no, this cannot be seen as anything else imo.
Ha Ha Ha Hansen
Say no more.
Or was he pushed…
Sea change…
I wonder from where Hansen will obtain his funding. Tides Foundation? Greenpeace? Oak Foundation? Sierra Club? I’m sure he will be well taken-care-of as a lawsuit waving activist.
Pushed before shoved, or super-ego running rampant?
Anyway, it just goes to prove there is no fraud like an old fraud.
Wonder who is paying his expenses?
This smell like fish… Probably a good move for him, can pursue his dreams with no strings attached. Lets just hope he does not use his old title to push more nonsense!
Tell me this again tomorrow.
tallbloke says:
April 1, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Or was he pushed…
Sea change…
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Could be. Does his recent paper (Climate forcing growth rates: doubling down on our Faustian bargain) make more sense in this context? Maybe this wasn’t enough? Don’t know.
What’s to celebrate? The US Supremes have already proven that judges have little clue about science, even going so far as to tell the EPA that it did have enough evidence to make a ruling.
Those people are fanatics–if even the EPA did not feel it had enough evidence to push the panic button, then it did not.
There is no living creature on Earth that does not derive all its tissues from the biochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Mr. Hansen and others are indirectly responsible for killing myriads of Arabs through food riots (“Arab Spring”) by promoting corn ethanol as a solution to the warming non-problem.
These people believe firmly in “overpopulation” and the need to reduce the numbers of people on Earth. They also threaten every other living thing, all the way down to bacteria.
Now one of the worst fanatics is relieved of all useful work to spend his full time fighting economic and biologic well-being.
What’s to celebrate?
But then what day would be more appropriate than today?
Can’t wait for Climategate 12 to find out if he went of his own free will.
(By the way if he wants to lobby in Europe he had better hurry – change is coming.)
“Klench Mychiques says:
April 1, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Say what you like about him, but it’s clear he’s willing to stand up for what he believes in.”
I could list dozens of individuals throughout history who stood up for what they believed, yet destroyed the lives of many in the process.
Always fighting against things. Does anyone fight for things anymore.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings and commented:
WOOT! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah, yes. Mr. Hansen, now that we have you under oath, which is it?
1. Do coal fired power plants:
A. Warm the planet. Or
B. Cool the planet.
C. Depends on what you need them to do at the moment.
Note: You may pick one, but no matter what you answered, we have you on record as saying the opposite.
2. You have stated on the the record, that it is OK to break the law, to support global warming alarmists positions. As you know, perjury is against the law, how can you expect to court to take you seriously when this is your stated position?
A. I was lying then, and I’m lying now, you gotta believe me.
B. I wasn’t lying, I’m just incompetent.
C. The truth? You can’t handle the truth! The truth is… What day is it?
Figured that would come soon after his report last week on coal keeping temps level. That is not in Pres Obamas Master Plan..
He should of been forced to retire after his firse arrest anyways.
He’ll be the hero of a new Al Gore movie? Sitting ice cold on a coal train in a Siberian-cold Britain, trying to stop the train so that the danger of a warm Britain is stopped. And in the meantime cops hunting him! Whom of you would be against this suffering hero, really? They win, we lose. 🙁
They used to call it senility years ago.
Absent his glorified official title this fatuous and inane prevaricator may chain himself to a fence forever, for all anyone will care.