Christopher Horner-NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA.

Dr. David Schnare, Watt’s Up With That—This week Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they favorably compare to Galileo, should have his emails, written and received while he was a young professor at the University of Virginia, protected from public release on the core basis that to do otherwise would “chill” the work of scientists and academics.

As it waits for the resolution of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which seeks the outside employment permission records of global warming activist Dr. James Hansen, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center has received the belatedly filed 2010 public financial disclosure of the renowned director of the NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

By PAUL CHESSER on 9.14.11—Dr. Michael Mann, who under a lesser title at University of Virginia created the famed “hockey stick” chart of 20th-century temperature escalations while leveling the Medieval Warm Period, has enlisted a Climategate Cavalcade of Stars to help him enter as an interested party in a lawsuit in which myorganization, American Tradition Institute, seeks to get his old UVA emails and data.

Dr. Michael Mann, lead author of the discredited “hockey stick” graph that was once hailed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the “smoking gun” of the catastrophic man-made global warming theory, has asked to intervene in American Tradition Institute’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that seeks certain records produced by Mann and others while he was at the University of Virginia, for the purpose of keeping them hidden from the taxpayer.

By: Christopher C. Horner, Washington Examiner, 08/27/11

The University of Virginia has joined a list of institutions claiming that there has been an actual inquiry into, and even ‘exoneration’ of, scientists exposed by the November 2009 “ClimateGate” leak, while simultaneously through its actions making a mockery of the idea.

By Paul Chesser — American Spectator
Survey results published this month by Rasmussen Reports show the public is skeptical of scientists who practice in the realm of climate change, which might cause opponents of academic transparency to think twice.

On January 19, 2011, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request (PDF) with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how ‘global warming’ activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behavior.

This request seeks records of longtime, taxpayer-funded activist Dr. Hansen, to determine whether Dr. Hansen has filed applications for outside employment, like speeches, books (emails obtained already indicate NASA staffed worked on this), cash awards and other gifts, and other support.

American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia to force the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to release ethics records for taxpayer-funded global warming activist Dr. James Hansen – specifically records that pertain to his outside employment, revenue generation, and advocacy activities.

Silence from pressure groups deafening; media joins hypocrisy

American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center has learned that George Mason University promptly released an academic’s correspondence and related records of the same class as those sought by ATI from the University of Virginia regarding former assistant professor Michael Mann.

The Case On May 16, 2011, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center and Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked a Prince William County judge, under the Commonwealth’s Freedom of Information Act, to expedite the release of documents withheld by the University of Virginia that pertain to the work of its former environmental sciences assistant professor Dr. Michael […]

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s William Yeatman explained last week how giant electric utility Xcel Energy incorporates a carbon tax into its economic models to evaluate how it makes its resource acquisitions. From his blog post at Globalwarming.org (but make sure you read the whole thing): Ratepayers can’t see it in their monthly bill, but the […]

Losing equipment and hiding records from the public. Originally posted at American Spectator.

Yesterday a dozen liberal and academic (but I repeat myself) groups rose in defense of Penn State Climategate scientist Michael Mann, making up reasons such as “academic freedom” to deny American Tradition Institute‘s request for Mann’s emails and records from the University of Virginia, his previous employer. ATI, where I am executive director, is asking […]

Today the American Tradition Institute responded to the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and 11 other activist groups – all which are oft-political and always left-leaning – for their new pressure campaign against the University of Virginia, which aims to block ATI’s efforts on behalf of taxpayers to access University records of climate scientist Michael Mann.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, [email protected] At American Spectator Online today, American Tradition Institute executive director Paul Chesser explains why ATI’s lawsuit against the State of Colorado over the unconstitutionality of its Renewable Energy Standard is about “putting wind energy on trial,” because it violates the Commerce Clause. An excerpt: […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 7, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, [email protected] Response by Dr. David Schnare, Director of ATI’s Environmental Law Center, to the American Wind Energy Association’s statement about ATI’s lawsuit against the State of Colorado: “In typical lobbyist fashion, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) thinks they own the facts. The American Tradition Institute’s […]

Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that the state’s law violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Commerce Clause reserves the regulation of interstate commerce to the federal government.

The Case On April 4, 2011, American Tradition Institute, American Tradition Partnership and plaintiff Rod Lueck sued the State of Colorado and several officials over the constitutionality of the state’s Renewable Energy Standard mandate. The RES requires the state’s major utilities (mainly Xcel Energy) to obtain 30 percent of their power generation from “renewable” sources […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 16, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, [email protected] Today, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center announced it would appeal a NASA decision to withhold from the public documents for its high-profile global warming activist, astronomer Dr. James Hansen. Two months ago ATI sought records detailing whether and how Dr. Hansen and his […]