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Goddard Institute for Space Studies

The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a component laboratory of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth-Sun Exploration Division and a unit of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

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NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself

The NASA scientist who once claimed the Bush administration tried to "silence" his global warming claims is now accused of receiving more than $1.

2 million from the very environmental organizations whose agenda he advocated.In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., a group claims NASA is withholding documents that show James Hansen failed to comply with ethics rules and financial disclosures regarding substantial compensation he earned outside his $180,000 taxpayer-paid position as director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ."Hansen's office appears to be somewhat of a rogue operation. It's clearly a taxpayer-funded global warming advocacy organization," said Chris Horner, a co-founder of The American Tradition Institute, which filed the lawsuit. "The real issue here is, has Hansen been asking NASA in writing, in advance, for permission for these outside activities? We have reason to believe that has not been occurring."The lawsuit claims Hansen privately profited from h...

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  1. The Next Climate-gate?

    The global warming scandal keeps getting worse. Revelations over the few weeks show that many important assertions in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha...

  2. Here Comes Al Gore, Our Global Warming Groundhog

    By Dan Gainor Vice President Business Media InstituteIt's almost Groundhog Day . That means it must be time for Americans to wait anxiously for Al Gore to pop up out...

  3. Pollution May Be Melting the Himalayas

    SAN FRANCISCO — Tiny particles of pollution known as "black carbon" — and not heat-trapping greenhouse gases — may be causing most of the rapid melting of glaciers i...

  4. U.S. Climate Data Compromised by Sensors' Proximity to Heat Sources, Critics Say

    A critical cog in the machinery that drives the theory of global warming is a small white box not too far from where you live. Inside the box sits a thermometer that...

  5. 'Archaic' Network Provides Data Behind Global Warming Theory, Critics Say

    Crucial data on the American climate, part of the basis for proposed trillion-dollar global warming legislation, is churned out by a 120-year-old weather system that...

  6. Political Grapevine: 11/17

    One of the global warming movement's most prominent sources of information makes a huge blunder

  7. Scientists' long-range forecast: Much more of the same: A century of heat, fires, floods

    NEW YORK –   Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a mid...

  8. Warmest Decade on Record

    2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, a new NASA analysis of global surface temperature shows. The analysis, conducted by the Goddard Insti...

  9. U.S. Climate Data Compromised by Sensors' Proximity to Heat Sources, Critics Say

    Global Warming ArtThe predicted temperature changes (darker red indicating greater change) due to global warming, based on data that scientists, policymakers and the...

  10. The New York Times Fights Back Against the Climate-gate Scandal

    The New York Times published a doozy of a front - page story by John M . Broder on Wednesday on the Climate - gate scientific fraud scandal . Those who have been la...

  11. Natural Factors Could Cause Global Warming

    Natural Factors Could Cause Global WarmingMonday, August 03, 2009PrintA warmer sun, combined with other natural factors, could increase global temperatures over the ...

  12. Pollution May Be Melting the Himalayas

    NASANew research shows how winds push thick clouds of black carbon (shown in purple and white) and dust toward the base of the Himalayas where they accumulate, rise ...

  1. NASA Top Climate Scientist Arrested on White House Protest

    Alongside actress Daryl Hannah, religious leaders, and dozens of eco-activists arrested Monday outside the White House protesting a planned oil pipeline from Canada ...

  2. The New York Times Fights Back Against the Climate-gate Scandal

    The New York Times published a doozy of a front-page story by John M. Broder on Wednesday on the Climate-gate scientific fraud scandal. Those who have been lambastin...

  3. Global Warming Scandal Hampers Progress, Experts Say

    The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.The lat...

  4. Senators Demand Explanation of NASA's Flawed Climate Data

    Not everyone is sipping the global warming Kool-Aid.Concerns about the validity of NASA's climate research are being raised following revelations that the space agen...

  5. NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits

    NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency can't tell you what the temperature was when it did. By its own admission, NASA's temperature records ar...

  6. Scientists' long-range forecast: much more of the same; a century of heat, fires, floods

    Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown....

  7. The Heat Is On Across the World . . . But Why?

    It's hot. Really, really hot. Temperatures hit triple digits all over the country this month, which could turn out to be the hottest July ever. So . . . what's causi...

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