Decrepit Old Fool

Check out the Seed Magazine profile of NASA climate scientist James Hansen written by bestselling author Chris Mooney.  It’s a good object lesson on how not to shut someone up in a democracy.  Might work in a dictatorship, though. 

Kinda reminds me of the old joke that ends; “OK granpaw, I got the wildcat – now tell me how to let go of him!”

UPDATE:  And as if to drive home the fact that they just haven’t learned their lesson, the Bush administration just issued a memo to travelling scientists that basically says; “I won’t mention climate change or polar bears…”