Perhaps this circumstance will substantially chill the overheated atmosphere surrounding NASA GISS operations.

FORBES: NASA's Inconvenient Ruse: The Goddard Institute For Space Studies

Dr. James Hansen and Reto Ruedy of NASA GISS have written a paper (non peer reviewed) with a remarkable admission in it.

FORBES: Yes! We Should Defund The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

First of all, GISS is actually only a climate modeling shop that relies on surface (not satellite) data that is mostly supplied by others.

FORBES: NASA's Inconvenient Ruse: The Goddard Institute For Space Studies

Since GISS is all about the surface temperature, that suggests (to rational thinkers at least) that some portion of the surface temperature rise post 1975 is due to pollution controls being enacted.

FORBES: Yes! We Should Defund The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

In a Jan. 29, 2006, New York Times interview Hansen charged that NASA public relations people had pressured him to allow them to review future public lectures, papers and postings on the GISS website.

FORBES: NASA's Inconvenient Ruse: The Goddard Institute For Space Studies