NASA's Hansen - AGW Shill?

Hansens's former supervisor might think so.

You decide for yourself.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1a5e6e32-802a-23ad-40ed-ecd53cd3d320&Issue_id=

Morano and Inhofe, there is the voice of reason. 8O

Danny Vettoretti said:

Hansens's former supervisor might think so.

You decide for yourself.

Inhofe? Yeah, that's who _I_ trust on scientific matters. Didn't I read something by him in the APJ recently? LOL

Trouble is John Theon was never Hansen supervisor. Theon was in part of NASA that handled budgetary issues for various divisions of NASA including GISS, GSFC, LARC, KSFC, and others. Claiming to be "in effect" Hansen's supervisor is here contrasted with being "in reality" Hansen's supervisor--being the guy who gives Hansen his annual performance appraisal. So, in short, Theon was never Hansen's "supervisor" in any accepted sense of the word.

Theon further states “Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,” The "muzzling" of James Hansen occurred during the (2nd) Bush Administration, not during the 1980s. Having retired from NASA in 1994, Theon has no personal knowledge of the time period in question.

So Danny what do you say now. Theon never had any supervisory role over Hansen and left NASA before the flap over Hansen's testimony in Congress. Does that make him a liar?