I ran a Diary entry on James Hansen, NASA's hero of Global Warming Warning back on Dec 5, entitled "Global Warming Causes new Ice Age". I recommend it to Kossacks who missed it the first time, given recent efforts by Bush appointees to muzzle Jim.
I've just been in washington, DC with forty-some other members of the "Band of Brothers"--Democratic Veterans running in the 2006 Congressional Elections. The Washington Post has been covering the attacks on James Hansen, after he went public about our last chance before Global Warming becomes irreversible, as has the Houston Chronicle. When the stories first broke, I was sure that Jim was going to be forced to retire. Just the opposite has happened when Mike Griffin, one of the finest men ever to serve as NASA Administrator, stepped in to state that political appointee public relations types would not be allowed to dictate scientific results. Hats off to Mike, with whom I served when we both reported to the only Astronaut ever to be NASA Administrator, Richard Truly. It isn't often that the tables get turned on the politically connected. It's now happened twice, to my knowledge, in NASA. To see the other, look at my first post in Kos describing how I beat Tom Delay, with the help of my then-bosses in NASA.