James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), went to Washington this week, with the True Believers Playbook in hand. Not surprisingly, he demonized those who question his beliefs about global warming. Like many before him, he was over-the-top in protecting his beloved world view. Ellen Goodman equates skeptics with holocaust deniers. Al Gore uses the flat earth society as his comparison, while assuring us that the “debate is over”.

Over time, the insults have been replaced by intimidation. State climatoligists who have questioned the consensus on Global Warming have been fired or reprimanded in Deleware, Virginia and Oregon.

This week, Hansen lowered the bar even further. Threatening job loss is so last year. Now Hansen wants to criminalize the questioning of the global warming consensus. He is asking for the CEO’s of “Big Oil” to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming. Seriously.

This, from a guy who repeatedly complains that he has been censored by the Bush administration,

Congressman Darryl Issa (R-San Diego) … went on to say that an internet search showed Hansen had had stated on more than 1,400 occasions in over a year’s worth of interviews and appearances (15 interviews alone in the month that the congressional hearings were taking place) that the Bush Administration had censored him.

How censored was he if he mentioned it 1400 times? Give me a break. What’s wrong with censoring people anyway, isn’t that what he wants to do, and more, to “Big Oil” CEO’s? It’s not like Bush was threatening criminal prosecution or anything. What a hypocrite.

James Hansen is, shall we say, fully invested in the Global Warming disaster position. Literally. Al Gore is not the only card carrying member of the Global Warming Industrial Complex who has become a very wealthy man.

American Thinker explains,

In 2001, the Heinz Foundation “awarded” James Hansen with a payment of $250,000 for his work on global warming.

In 2007, Hansen split a $1 million prize from the Dan David prize category of “Future Quest for Energy” (layman’s translation: a world without oil).

According to Investors Business Daily, “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 [George] Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI), 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.”

It makes one wonder how much of Hansen and Gore’s fanaticism is driven by love of mother earth, and how much is driven by $elf interest.

Do I need a lawyer?