NASA Scientist Censured Over Greenhouse Gas Comments
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NASA's chief climate scientist James Hansen was quoted by Good Morning America last month as saying that industry was to blame for the record high temperatures last year due to greenhouse gas emissions and that if we did not do something about it the problem was going to get worse.
Hansen said he received phone calls from NASA officials following the television news program's show in which they told him not to release such comments without prior approval, that Washington did not appreciate it.
'One threat was relayed to me that there would be 'dire consequences - not specified,'' Hansen told members of the press.
Hansen gave a speech last month saying, 'We're getting very close to a tipping point in the climate system. If we don't get off our 'business as usual' scenario and begin to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we're going to get big climate changes.'
NASA's chief climate scientist James Hansen was quoted by Good Morning America last month as saying that industry was to blame for the record high temperatures last year due to greenhouse gas emissions and that if we did not do something about it the problem was going to get worse.Hansen said he received phone calls from NASA officials following the television news program's show in which they told him not to release such comments without prior approval, that Washington did not appreciate it.
'One threat was relayed to me that there would be 'dire consequences - not specified,'' Hansen told members of the press.
Hansen gave a speech last month saying, 'We're getting very close to a tipping point in the climate system. If we don't get off our 'business as usual' scenario and begin to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we're going to get big climate changes.'
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