George Soros and James Hansen - Match Made in Global Warming Heaven

James Hansen, a NASA employee and prophet of global warming doom, has been a pain in the administration's butt for years as he has attempted to bully the administration and Congress into following him down the global warming doom-and-gloom path. As Investors Business Daily now points out, Hansen has been getting significant funding for his efforts from none other than Bush-hater George Soros:

Democracy: George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency.

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.

Hansen needs to be removed from NASA immediately. Who knows how these funds were used, but since when was it okay for non-elected government employees to accept funds from special interest groups to pursue specific political objectives?