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Bush solution to global warming: Put facts in the deep freeze

January 29, 2006

According to Andrew Revkin writing in the New York Times, "The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming." Having reviewed a number of books on the subject, I know Dr. James Hansen by reputation and consider this one of the most egregious attacks in the Bush administration's ongoing war on science.

Revkin continues: "The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

"Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. 'They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public,' he said."

Dr. Hansen is not an idealogue or an alarmist. He is a scientist who has been following the evidence wherever it leads. The administration's efforts to silence him are not only a disgrace but a long-term threat to our national security. There is a serious climate-driven geo-political storm ahead, and that threatens our national security in the long run even more than Al Qaeda does in the immediate future.

Read the rest of Revkin's article here.