Dr. James Hansen has a long track record of being one of NASA's most outspoken representatives when it comes to Global Warming and green house gas emissions. He has been tapped by the Bush White house in the past to brief the Vice President and other cabinet members on the benefits of removing soot from the atmosphere as a first step in curbing the affects of global warming. In 2004, he fell out of grace with the current administration after confessing during a speaking engagement that he was going to vote for presidential candidate John Kerry because governement climate scientists were being muzzled by the Bush Administration. Now Dr. Hansen has accused his bosses at NASA of applying bureaucratic pressure to keep quite after a speech in December where he oulined eveidence that showed hat 2005 was the warmest year in the last 100 years of record keeping.
This is not the first time that Hansen has levied these kinds of charges against the upper management at NASA, and probably won't be the last. An outspoken personlity like Hansen's is beneficial to the whole Global Warming arena, because these kinds of charges make the news, along with his findings and data, and put the spotlight back on this very important subject.
My own feeling on the accusations is that the management at NASA may be reacting to a certain circumstance and may be panicking because of findings released by Hansen, but they are not really censoring the data. There are mountains of data available to anybody who wants to sift through it, but one must be able to understand the data and form your own conclusions from it.
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Man's impact on the global climate is the biggest danger that the human race faces today. We as a species have to overcome many preconceived notions to face this dilemma and we should know a few things about our enemy. The climate sees no borders, and does not discriminate based on politcal beliefs, religion, skin color, or sexuality, and will surely affect all of us in ways that we cannot imagine in the years to come.
Thing are happening on this planet right now that have dire consequences of for all humans. Accelerating Polar Ice Melt, the deforestation of the Amazon Basin and other large tropical forests, rising sea surface temperatures, massive coral die-offs, droughts, floods and stronger hurricanes are all interconnected and seem to be spinning out of control. For us to really make a difference in our affect on Global Climate Change, we are all going to have to work together as a species.
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