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Owner59 -> RE: James Hansen ... follow the money? (11/21/2011 10:16:14 AM)
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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
You know, on the Global Warming front, there has been some interesting developments.
I know that many pooh-pooh any science that has been funded by, or is even tenuously related to any company that produces power, or oil.
When the hacker downloaded and released all those emails from the Climatic Research Unit - University of East Anglia in Britain, one of the conversations we had on this forum was about how some scientist seemed to be profiting as well, but for the opposite reason.
Well, seems like James Hansen of NASA has some problems, directly related to doing so. And doing so in violation of government law and regulations. Not to mention accepting a lot of money from "Global Warming" advocacy groups.
There doesn't appear to be any MSM attention, but I'm still looking and waiting to see if it does become a story. In the mean time, here is a pretty detailed explanation and coverage:
Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income
A Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File
November 18, 2011
By Christopher Horner
NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA.
This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests. As specifically detailed below, Hansen failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in global travel provided to him by outside parties — including to London, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, the Austrian Alps, Bilbao, California, Australia and elsewhere, often business or first-class and also often paying for his wife as well — to receive honoraria to speak about the topic of his taxpayer-funded employment, or get cash awards for his activism and even for his past testimony and other work for NASA.
Ethics laws require that such payments or gifts be reported on an SF278 public financial disclosure form. As detailed, below, Hansen nonetheless regularly refused to report this income.
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As detailed in the American Tradition Institute’s lawsuit which yielded these records, Hansen suddenly became the recipient of many, often lucrative offers of outside employment and awards after he escalated his political activism — using his NASA position as a platform, and springboard. This began with a strident “60 Minutes” interview in early 2006, alleging political interference by the Bush administration in climate science.
Hansen acknowledged this timing on his website, noting that first he was offered an award of “a moderate amount of cash– $10,000″ by an outside activist group. He claims to have turned this down because of the nominating process (without elaborating what that meant), and because of the impropriety of appearing to be financially rewarded for his outspokenness (“I was concerned that it may create the appearance that I had spoken out about government censorship [sic] for the sake of the $”).
It doesn't appear that he was able to resist the temptation all that long. [8D]
Does this open any doubts in anyone's mind about the corruption of science?
Firm
You wanna go back over full the history of corporate maleficence and stack that against your theories about the scientific community?
Didn`t think so.
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