James Hansen's Former Boss, On James Hansen

by Lawrence Solomon - January 28th, 2009 - Financial Post

James Hansen of NASA's GISS has been the single-most influential scientist in the world in promoting the view that global warming represents a catastrophic risk to the planet. His former supervisor at NASA, Dr. John S. Theon, now publicly disagrees with Hansen's work. In the correspondence below from earlier this month, Theon dismisses the validity of Hansen's work, charges that some scientists manipulated climate change data, and formally joined the ranks of the deniers.

Without Hansen to quote, Al Gore would actually be quite limited in his chicken little announcements of imminent global panic. Hansen has been the leading voice of apocalyptic doom over global warming. In fact, it is his only justification for being considered a climate leader. His other work is pitiful and filled with equally questionable proclamations.