James Hansen is director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). He's also considered the "intellectual" underpinning for just about every anti-global warming campaign of every eco-nut out there. Pittsburgh's Heinz Endowments is a big fan. So, too, is Ozone Al Gore.

But these days, even his agency's own data should be muzzling the beaks of the Chicken Littles free-ranging on the global warming barnyard. After all, GISS' own data show the Earth's temperature not only has been static over the last decade but actually has been falling.

So, Mr. Hansen, heavily funded also by John and Jane Q. Taxpayer, was in need of a little public relations stunt.

On Monday, the Chicken Little in chief went before Congress 20 years after his first visit to say the sky really is falling. And, for good measure, he called for Big Oil executives to be tried for high crimes against humanity for spreading doubt about global warming.

Additionally, Hansen told a British newspaper that he'll work to unseat members of Congress who challenge his views.

Knock yourself out, fella. Just don't expect taxpayers to fund your science-bereft political machinations any longer.  Source