Dr Jim Hansen the silenced self-effacing climate change scientist with a worldwide reputation for accurate and high-quality research.
Climate scientist they could not silence - Times Online
The White House ordered that Dr Jim Hansen was to be denied the oxygen of publicity forthwith. He was to be banned from appearing in newspapers and on TV and radio. He was effectively to disappear.
It was the kind of treatment that might be reserved for terrorists, criminals or, in a totalitarian regime, for political dissidents.
Hansen, however, was none of these things. The director of Nasa’s renowned Goddard space science laboratories was a dry, rather self-effacing climate change scientist with a worldwide reputation for accurate and high-quality research.
Apparently this was in February 2006 on this earth not in some nearly parallel universe, as you might have thought.
Comments
Thanks for posting this.
I do not usually make a comment on the Times online as they do not print it.This morning,however they have done so.Anyone had a similar experience?
Posted by: Edward Welsh | February 10, 2008 1:53 PM
I think it's a great photo of Jonathan Leake...
Posted by: harbinger | February 11, 2008 12:25 AM
Edward
Yes, am pleased to say that my less-than-complementary remarks about Hansen got posted.
Posted by: BrianSJ | February 11, 2008 7:24 AM