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<p><font face="Calibri"><font size="+2"><i><b>January 29, 2023</b></i></font></font></p>
<i><font face="Calibri">[ atmospheric river in the sky - increasing
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Weather Extremes Are Devastating California</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">VICE News</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">57,472 views Jan 28, 2023 #VICENews #News</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">California’s recent floods led to more deaths
than the last two wildfire seasons combined, and they’re only a
preview of the state’s extreme weather future.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkbhXRS0s0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkbhXRS0s0</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri">[ Polycrisis is a
new word ]<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Are we headed toward a “polycrisis”?
The buzzword of the moment, explained.</b><br>
The concept of “polycrisis” was everywhere in Davos. But is it
saying anything meaningful?<br>
By Daniel Drezner <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Jan 28, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The future will not be crisis-free by any
stretch of the imagination — but the notion of a polycrisis might
do more harm than good in attempting to get a grip on the systemic
risks that threaten humanity.<br>
<br>
The history of the idea of the polycrisis<br>
As with many buzzwords foretelling despair, the origins of
polycrisis can be blamed on the French.<br>
<br>
In their 1999 book Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New
Millennium, French complexity theorist Edgar Morin and his
co-author Anne Brigitte Kern warned of the “complex
intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrollable
processes, and the general crisis of the planet.” Other academics
began using the term in a similar way. European Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker adopted the term to characterize the
cluster of negative shocks triggered by the 2008 financial crisis.<br>
<br>
So far, so redundant — none of these initial references really
seem to mean much beyond “A Big, Bad Catastrophe.” Tooze’s initial
column and Substack post, however, referenced the work of
political scientists Michael Lawrence, Scott Janzwood, and Thomas
Homer-Dixon. They work at the Cascade Institute, a Canadian
research center focusing on emergent and systemic risks. In a 2022
working paper, they provide the fullest etymology of “polycrisis”
and what they mean by it.<br>
<br>
So what the hell is a polycrisis? The quick-and-dirty answer is
that it’s the concatenation of shocks that generate crises that
trigger crises in other systems that, in turn, worsen the initial
crises, making the combined effect far, far worse than the sum of
its parts.<br>
<br>
The longer answer requires some familiarity with how complex
systems work. Complex systems can range from a nuclear power plant
to Earth’s ecosystem. In tightly wound and complex systems, not
even experts can be entirely sure how the inner workings of the
system will respond to stresses and shocks. Those who study
systemic and catastrophic risks have long been aware that crises
in these systems are often endogenous — i.e., they often bubble up
from within the system’s inscrutable internal workings...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>How real is the polycrisis?</b><br>
Take a second now and consider all the shocks that have buffeted
you, dear reader, in the past few years alone.<br>
<br>
There is the largest land war in Europe in recent memory, a
devastating pandemic, the surge in refugee flows, high inflation,
fragile global governance, and the leading democracies turning
inward as they face populist challenges at home. It seems easy —
and enervating — to believe that the polycrisis is upon us.<br>
<br>
The thing about the previous paragraph is that it does not just
describe the current moment; it also captures the global situation
almost exactly a century ago. The First World War devastated
Europe. The war also helped to facilitate the spread of the
influenza pandemic through troop movements and information
censorship. The costs of both the war and the pandemic badly
weakened the postwar order, leading to spikes in hyperinflation,
illiberal ideologies, and democracies that turned inward. All of
that transpired during the start of the Roaring ’20s; the world
turned much darker a decade later...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Another weird, fortuitous interaction has been
the one between climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Europe aided Ukraine and resisted Russia’s blatant, illegal
actions, Russia retaliated by cutting off energy exports. Many
were concerned that Russia’s counter-sanctions would make this
winter extremely hard and expensive for Europe.<br>
<br>
Climate change may have provided a weird geopolitical assist to
Europe, however. The warming climate is likely connected to
Europe’s extremely temperate fall and winter. That, in turn, has
required less electricity for heating, leaving the continent with
plenty of energy reserves to last the winter. Russia’s ability to
wreak havoc on the European economy has been circumscribed.<br>
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None of this is to say that systemic crises cannot exacerbate each
other. Just because a polycrisis has not happened yet does not
mean one is not on the horizon. Just as one buys insurance to
guard against low-probability, high-impact outcomes, policymakers
and elements of civil society need to guard against worst-case
scenarios.<br>
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As a term of art, however, “polycrisis” distracts more than it
adds. It mostly seems like a device to make people care about the
Really Bad Things that climate change can do, without turning
people off by warning them yet again about the hazards of climate
change.<br>
<br>
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the
Fletcher School and is the author of Drezner’s World.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/23572710/polycrisis-davos-history-climate-russia-ukraine-inflation">https://www.vox.com/23572710/polycrisis-davos-history-climate-russia-ukraine-inflation</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ 90 min Video -- Listening to this
conversation is like sitting at at bar. I feel alone, but
hearing talk helps face our predicament. Who has a collapse
community? </i> ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Change Trauma: You Are Not Alone</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Environmental Coffeehouse</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">3.02K subscribers</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Streamed live 1-27-2023 #climatecrisis
#collapse</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Tonight join Jennifer Hynes & Eliot
Jacobson for a discussion related to the following article.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/climate-change-trauma-youre-not-alone/">https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/climate-change-trauma-youre-not-alone/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiOhtkUpMI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiOhtkUpMI</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ important observation in text ]<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Change Trauma: You’re Not
Alone!</b><br>
THOM HAWKINS<br>
JANUARY 24, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Anxiety and trauma have become common effects
of living and surviving in our rapidly overheating and intensely
polluted globe. Scientists tell us over and over that we are well
on our way to unthinkable consequences in the very near future. In
fact, many people have already experienced such horrific events.
If you are feeling battered by climate change, you definitely are
not alone.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Thom Hawkins<br>
A UC, San Diego team has just published a new study documenting
the lingering PTSD-like symptoms of climate disaster.<br>
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Such trauma is more widespread than expected and can seriously
disable cognitive function. Victims might not be fully aware of
the impacts. You don’t have to live through a disaster to become
disruptively anxious about global heating and erratic, extreme
weather. It’s very hard to ignore.<br>
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Most of us are not in positions to do enough to make a major
difference in the climate tragedy besetting us all. That being
said, many experts tell us that the healthiest strategy is to be
proactive on five fronts:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="Calibri">Stay informed on the science and news
reports from reliable sources so you don’t get blindsided.<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Practice caring for the earth through
gardening, hiking, camping or any beneficial activity in
pristine nature. Appreciate the beauty nature still has to
offer. Live as sustainably as possible.<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Prepare for the worst: stock food and
water, tools, first aid, etc. Make your home as resistant as
possible to fire, flooding, weather extremes and power
outages. Have a portable solar panel with rechargeable battery
to run fans, coolers and lights. Get a solar cooker. <br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Keep large, solid blocks of ice in your
freezer along with frozen food.<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Consider carefully how you want to behave
when disaster strikes, because it will, very soon.<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Meet regularly with equally concerned
friends, relatives and neighbors to share information from the
first four strategies.<br>
Tell family and friends often how much you love them.<br>
</font></li>
</ol>
<font face="Calibri">Finally, lower your expectations that
technology will find “solutions” to control warming. The record is
none too good so far, so why add disappointment to the suffering
we’re all in for? Escape is not a realistic goal. Acceptance is.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/climate-change-trauma-youre-not-alone/">https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/climate-change-trauma-youre-not-alone/</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Climate models let us infer risk and
uncertainty - audio 1:28 ]</i><br>
<b>On the abuse (and proper use) of climate models</b><br>
A conversation with Erica Thompson about her new book "Escape From
Model Land."<br>
<br>
JAN 27 Everyone who's followed climate change for any length of
time is familiar with the central role that complex mathematical
models play in climate science and politics. Models give us
predictions about how much the Earth's atmosphere will warm and
how much it will cost to prevent or adapt to that warming.<br>
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[ listen link ]
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href="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193024/private/bc96fdaa-2ce1-4b71-8707-bb5f1dd458ce.rss">https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193024/private/bc96fdaa-2ce1-4b71-8707-bb5f1dd458ce.rss</a><br>
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British researcher Erica Thompson has been thinking about the uses
and misuse of mathematical modeling for years, and she has just
come out with an absorbing and thought-provoking new book on the
subject called Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can
Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It.<br>
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More than anything, it is an extended plea for epistemological
humility — a proper appreciation of the intrinsic limitations of
modeling, the deep uncertainties that can never be eliminated, and
the ineradicable role of human judgment in interpreting model
results and applying them to the real world.<br>
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As Volts listeners know, my favorite kind of book takes a set of
my vague intuitions and theories and lays them out in a cogent,
well-researched argument. One does love having one's priors
confirmed! I wrote critiques of climate modeling at Vox and even
way back at Grist — it's been a persistent interest of mine — but
Thompson's book lays out a full, rich account of what models can
and can't help us do, and how we can put them to better use.<br>
<br>
I was thrilled to talk with her about some of her critiques of
models and how they apply to climate modeling, among many other
things. This is a long one! But a good one, I think. Settle in.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/on-the-abuse-and-proper-use-of-climate?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=193024&post_id=96794630&utm_medium=email#details">https://www.volts.wtf/p/on-the-abuse-and-proper-use-of-climate?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=193024&post_id=96794630&utm_medium=email#details</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ her book is new and interesting ]</i><br>
<b>Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us
Astray and What We Can Do About It Kindle Edition</b><br>
by Erica Thompson<br>
Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make
better decisions by accepting their limits <br>
<br>
Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a
corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us
understand the world around us every day. But models aren’t a
mirror of reality. In fact, they are fantasies, where everything
works out perfectly, every time. And relying on them too heavily
can hurt us. <br>
<br>
In Escape from Model Land, statistician Erica Thompson illuminates
the hidden dangers of models. She demonstrates how models reflect
the biases, perspectives, and expectations of their creators.
Thompson shows us why understanding the limits of models is vital
to using them well. A deeper meditation on the role of
mathematics, this is an essential book for helping us avoid either
confusing the map with the territory or throwing away the map
completely, instead pointing to more nuanced ways to Escape from
Model Land. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Model-Land-Mathematical-Models-ebook/dp/B09X5BK7RK">https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Model-Land-Mathematical-Models-ebook/dp/B09X5BK7RK</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i><br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Climate Economics - Univ of
Chicago - is this just simple inequity? ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Study Finds Reducing Energy Use Increases
Mortality</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> In a case study where residents were
encouraged to reduce their residential energy use, including the
use of air conditioners, the mortality rate increased.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">MISSION</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> To confront the global energy challenge by
ensuring Energy Markets provide access to reliable, affordable
energy needed for growth, while limiting emissions that cause
Climate Change and damages to the Environment...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://epic.uchicago.edu/">https://epic.uchicago.edu/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Opinion --- No legal protection for
telling a lie. pretty important ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>False
Advertising Isn't First Amendment-Protected Free Speech, Lawyer
Explains in New Paper</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Climate Denier Roundup</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Community </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Friday January 27, 2023 · </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Whenever anyone dares to suggest that
disinformation is bad, one of the most common knee-jerk reactions
is to cry, 'The First Amendment protects freedom of speech!' </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> But the fossil fuel industry's false
advertising isn't protected by the First Amendment, and you don't
have to take our word for it. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "Corporations should not be able to use the
First Amendment as a get-out-of-jail-free card," Katherine Horner,
New York County Supreme Court attorney, told ExxonKnews. Horner
recently published a paper in the Environmental Law Reporter
(hosted free on Horner's LinkedIn) that examines Big Oil's free
speech defense, and she did not find it convincing!</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Horner explains that, just like the tobacco
companies before them, who "were made to account for their actions
following the disclosure of internal documents chronicling the
scheme to deceive the public," fossil fuel companies "have
followed suit, arguing their public statements are protected by
the First Amendment's freedom of speech and right to petition
clauses." </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Horner’s richly cited, 35-page paper "seeks to
determine whether their argument holds any water" and finds that
for the most part, it does not.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> It's not just that incorrect statements aren't
protected speech, though. To justify government intervention, the
Supreme Court precedent is that the speech must also present a
"legally cognizable harm," like in cases of fraud or defamation.
Clearly, climate disinformation rises to that level of harm. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Horner traces the history of the Supreme
Court's commercial speech decisions, outlining the various legal
tests for whether or not commercial speech is protected by the
First Amendment, and applies these tests to the fossil fuel
industry's communications. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> She ultimately determines that most of Big
Oil's public communications on climate consist of false
advertisements that aren't protected by the First Amendment. (The
exception is "speech specifically directed to legislative or
executive action," because companies are still allowed to petition
the government.)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> But corporate advertisements "should be
classified as false and misleading commercial speech that does not
warrant First Amendment protection" and they "should not be
rewarded for the skill with which they distort the truth and
disguise their deceit." </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> We couldn't have said it better ourselves (and
over the years, we've certainly tried)!</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/27/2149575/-False-Advertising-Isn-t-First-Amendment-Protected-Free-Speech-Lawyer-Explains-in-New-Paper">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/27/2149575/-False-Advertising-Isn-t-First-Amendment-Protected-Free-Speech-Lawyer-Explains-in-New-Paper</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ here's the academic paper ]</i><br>
<b>Does the First Amendment Protect Fossil Fuel Companies’ Public
Speech?</b><br>
January 2023<br>
Citation: 53 <br>
Katherine G. Horner<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Numerous cities, states, and
counties have sued fossil fuel companies, with claims based on
evidence found in the companies’ own internal documents and
statements. These companies have argued their public statements
are protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of speech and
right to petition clauses. This Article describes the current
litigation, discusses the companies’ statements disseminated
through various sources, and summarizes U.S. Supreme Court
precedent and caselaw on commercial speech. It analyzes (1)
whether the fossil fuel companies’ statements should be
classified as commercial speech, (2) whether they constitute
false and misleading commercial speech, and (3) whether their
statements merit First Amendment protection. It concludes that
some categories of statements may be found not to rise to the
level of protected speech.<br>
</font> </blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"> Katherine G. Horner has a J.D. from Brooklyn
Law School and an LL.M. in environmental law from the Elisabeth
Haub School of Law at Pace University, and currently works as a
court attorney in Supreme Court, New York County.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.elr.info/articles/elr-articles/does-first-amendment-protect-fossil-fuel-companies-public-speech">https://www.elr.info/articles/elr-articles/does-first-amendment-protect-fossil-fuel-companies-public-speech</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 29, 2006</b></i></font> <br>
January 29, 2006: The New York Times reports on the extensive
effort by the George W. Bush administration to muzzle NASA
scientist James Hansen. (The controversy would also be covered by
Air America's "EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg" and the CBS program
"60 Minutes.") </font>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to
Silence Him</b><br>
By Andrew C. Revkin<br>
Jan. 29, 2006<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration
has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a
lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions
of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the
agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an
interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the
public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers,
postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews
from journalists.<br>
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Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. "They feel
their job is to be this censor of information going out to the
public," he said.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Dean Acosta, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs
at the space agency, said there was no effort to silence Dr.
Hansen. "That's not the way we operate here at NASA," Mr.
Acosta said. "We promote openness and we speak with the
facts."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
He said the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all National
Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel. He added that
government scientists were free to discuss scientific
findings, but that policy statements should be left to policy
makers and appointed spokesmen.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Mr. Acosta said other reasons for requiring press officers to
review interview requests were to have an orderly flow of
information out of a sprawling agency and to avoid surprises.
"This is not about any individual or any issue like global
warming," he said. "It's about coordination."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Dr. Hansen strongly disagreed with this characterization,
saying such procedures had already prevented the public from
fully grasping recent findings about climate change that point
to risks ahead.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
"Communicating with the public seems to be essential," he
said, "because public concern is probably the only thing
capable of overcoming the special interests that have
obfuscated the topic."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Dr. Hansen, 63, a physicist who joined the space agency in
1967, directs efforts to simulate the global climate on
computers at the Goddard Institute in Morningside Heights in
Manhattan.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Since 1988, he has been issuing public warnings about the
long-term threat from heat-trapping emissions, dominated by
carbon dioxide, that are an unavoidable byproduct of burning
coal, oil and other fossil fuels. He has had run-ins with
politicians or their appointees in various administrations,
including budget watchers in the first Bush administration and
Vice President Al Gore.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
In 2001, Dr. Hansen was invited twice to brief Vice President
Dick Cheney and other cabinet members on climate change. White
House officials were interested in his findings showing that
cleaning up soot, which also warms the atmosphere, was an
effective and far easier first step than curbing carbon
dioxide.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
He fell out of favor with the White House in 2004 after giving
a speech at the University of Iowa before the presidential
election, in which he complained that government climate
scientists were being muzzled and said he planned to vote for
Senator John Kerry.<br>
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But Dr. Hansen said that nothing in 30 years equaled the push
made since early December to keep him from publicly discussing
what he says are clear-cut dangers from further delay in
curbing carbon dioxide.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
In several interviews with The New York Times in recent days,
Dr. Hansen said it would be irresponsible not to speak out,
particularly because NASA's mission statement includes the
phrase "to understand and protect our home planet."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
He said he was particularly incensed that the directives had
come through telephone conversations and not through formal
channels, leaving no significant trails of documents.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Dr. Hansen's supervisor, Franco Einaudi, said there had been
no official "order or pressure to say shut Jim up." But Dr.
Einaudi added, "That doesn't mean I like this kind of pressure
being applied."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
The fresh efforts to quiet him, Dr. Hansen said, began in a
series of calls after a lecture he gave on Dec. 6 at the
annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San
Francisco. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts
could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in
the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the
United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth
"a different planet."<br>
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The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to
slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
After that speech and the release of data by Dr. Hansen on
Dec. 15 showing that 2005 was probably the warmest year in at
least a century, officials at the headquarters of the space
agency repeatedly phoned public affairs officers, who relayed
the warning to Dr. Hansen that there would be "dire
consequences" if such statements continued, those officers and
Dr. Hansen said in interviews.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Among the restrictions, according to Dr. Hansen and an
internal draft memorandum he provided to The Times, was that
his supervisors could stand in for him in any news media
interviews.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Mr. Acosta said the calls and meetings with Goddard press
officers were not to introduce restrictions, but to review
existing rules. He said Dr. Hansen had continued to speak
frequently with the news media.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
But Dr. Hansen and some of his colleagues said interviews were
canceled as a result.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
In one call, George Deutsch, a recently appointed public
affairs officer at NASA headquarters, rejected a request from
a producer at National Public Radio to interview Dr. Hansen,
said Leslie McCarthy, a public affairs officer responsible for
the Goddard Institute.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Citing handwritten notes taken during the conversation, Ms.
McCarthy said Mr. Deutsch called N.P.R. "the most liberal"
media outlet in the country. She said that in that call and
others, Mr. Deutsch said his job was "to make the president
look good" and that as a White House appointee that might be
Mr. Deutsch's priority.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
But she added: "I'm a career civil servant and Jim Hansen is a
scientist. That's not our job. That's not our mission. The
inference was that Hansen was disloyal."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Normally, Ms. McCarthy would not be free to describe such
conversations to the news media, but she agreed to an
interview after Mr. Acosta, at NASA headquarters, told The
Times that she would not face any retribution for doing so.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Mr. Acosta, Mr. Deutsch's supervisor, said that when Mr.
Deutsch was asked about the conversations, he flatly denied
saying anything of the sort. Mr. Deutsch referred all
interview requests to Mr. Acosta.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Ms. McCarthy, when told of the response, said: "Why am I going
to go out of my way to make this up and back up Jim Hansen? I
don't have a dog in this race. And what does Hansen have to
gain?"<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Mr. Acosta said that for the moment he had no way of judging
who was telling the truth. Several colleagues of both Ms.
McCarthy and Dr. Hansen said Ms. McCarthy's statements were
consistent with what she told them when the conversations
occurred.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
"He's not trying to create a war over this," said Larry D.
Travis, an astronomer who is Dr. Hansen's deputy at Goddard,
"but really feels very strongly that this is an obligation we
have as federal scientists, to inform the public."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Dr. Travis said he walked into Ms. McCarthy's office in
mid-December at the end of one of the calls from Mr. Deutsch
demanding that Dr. Hansen be better controlled.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
In an interview on Friday, Ralph J. Cicerone, an atmospheric
chemist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences,
the nation's leading independent scientific body, praised Dr.
Hansen's scientific contributions and said he had always
seemed to describe his public statements clearly as his
personal views.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
"He really is one of the most productive and creative
scientists in the world," Dr. Cicerone said. "I've heard
Hansen speak many times and I've read many of his papers,
starting in the late 70's. Every single time, in writing or
when I've heard him speak, he's always clear that he's
speaking for himself, not for NASA or the administration,
whichever administration it's been."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
The fight between Dr. Hansen and administration officials
echoes other recent disputes. At climate laboratories of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for example,
many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five
years ago can now do so only if the interview is approved by
administration officials in Washington, and then only if a
public affairs officer is present or on the phone.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
Where scientists' points of view on climate policy align with
those of the administration, however, there are few signs of
restrictions on extracurricular lectures or writing.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
One example is Indur M. Goklany, assistant director of science
and technology policy in the policy office of the Interior
Department. For years, Dr. Goklany, an electrical engineer by
training, has written in papers and books that it may be
better not to force cuts in greenhouse gases because the added
prosperity from unfettered economic activity would allow
countries to exploit benefits of warming and adapt to
problems.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
In an e-mail exchange on Friday, Dr. Goklany said that in the
Clinton administration he was shifted to nonclimate-related
work, but added that he had never had to stop his outside
writing, as long as he identified the views as his own.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><br>
"One reason why I still continue to do the extracurricular
stuff," he wrote, "is because one doesn't have to get
clearance for what I plan on saying or writing."</font></p>
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