Half-Baked Smears against Climatologists

Scientific America (.com) has this note about how a press release from the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works castigated Tom Brokaw for employing James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the leading scientific experts on the subject of global warming, as a scientific adviser on the Global Warming: What You Need to Know special on the Discovery Channel. It appears that the EPW press office was apparently content to attack Hansen's integrity without bothering to verify whether and where the his statements were really made.