Global-warming catastrophist James Hansen of NASA seems to be unhappy that he's catching flak for the Climategate revelations. As quoted in Watts Up With That, Hansen complains


The useful lesson is, "as ye sow, so shall ye reap." From The Guardian, 23 June 2008:


Mind you, the "high crime" isn't producing CO₂, it is "spreading doubt." Hell of an attitude for a so-called scientist.

Nor was Hansen worried about the "devolved" state of affairs when his allies were suggesting, about climate skeptics,

"This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"...see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act" - David Suzuki
"An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds" - Joe Romm
"We should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg" - Grist Magazine

Let me be clear that I do not endorse any of these statements. I don't believe Hansen or his allies, nor skeptics, deserve capital punishment. But if Hansen wants to know how a scientific inquiry "devolved" to threats of punishment for dissenting views, he need look no farther than the nearest mirror.