Bush Climate Critic a Soros Stooge?

Remember NASA scientist James Hansen who claimed the Bush Administration was censoring his dire predictions about Global Warming? Well, in addition to getting some historic temperature data wrong and having at one time been a Global Cooling alarmist, it seems the good doctor has received a few bucks from noted Bush hater George Soros’ ‘Open Society Institute’.

How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute , which gave him "legal and media advice"?

That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship "philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's "politicization of science" program.

That may have meant that Hansen had media flacks help him get on the evening news to push his agenda and lawyers pressuring officials to let him spout his supposedly "censored" spiel for weeks in the name of advancing the global warming agenda.

Hansen even succeeded, with public pressure from his nightly news performances, in forcing NASA to change its media policies to his advantage. Had Hansen's OSI-funding been known, the public might have viewed the whole production differently. The outcome could have been different.

Gee, I wonder if this Soros funded ‘media advice’ had any impact on Hansen’s media campaign against the Bush Administration? That’s a real puzzler but I disagree it would have mattered to the MSM who bought Hansen hook, line and sinker. They don’t care that he’s part of the Soros attack machine.

Check out the whole Investors Business Daily story for more information on Soros’ corrosive impact on politics.

posted by DrewM. at 12:22 PM

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