Top NSA Climate Scientist Claims US Gov't Censorship

'James E. Hansen, top NASA climate scientist, on Friday at the Goddard Institute in Upper Manhattan claims the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking-out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions: "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public."'

Further reading:

• Dr. Hansen's Recent Papers of Global Warming
• New York Times source article