'Fire Hansen' Movement Hits Facebook

Demands for the firing of NASA astronomer and global-warming fear-monger James Hansen are spreading rapidly through the World Wide Web.

Hansen's latest escapade--a YouTube video in which the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Sciences invites the public to "please join us" in forcibly occupying a D.C.-based coal-burning power plant--resulted in The Heartland Institute Monday calling attention to the growing chorus of voices urging President Barack Obama to fire Hansen. The astronomer has a tawdry record of doctoring climate data to fit his theory that the Earth is in a global-warming crisis, and he has demanded that scientists who disagree with him face a Nuremberg-style trial.

A section on FaceBook has opened up, "Fire James Hansen," at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53080958739, and is attracting new members.