First, an item concerning the Grand Poo-bah of Glowbull Warming himself:

A scientist forces Al Gore to back down

For years, Al Gore has predicted that man’s sins of carbon dioxide will bring calamity and apocalypse. He cited an increase in natural disasters.

Gore quietly dropped the contention that the increase is connected to manmade global warming this week after being called on it by Roger A. Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.

“Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation,” reported Andrew Revkin on a blog for the New York Times.

What? AlGor making a bogus presentation so blatently incorrect that it even exceeded his loose standard of scientific validity?

…his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years. “The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.”

The slide has since disappeared from the show, Revkin wrote.

This was not happenstance. Pielke called Gore on his assertions. The link between manmade activity and natural disasters has not been established. CRED, the source cited by Gore, even said so.

If AlGor is so concerned about man-made CO2, maybe he can make his own contribution to solving his “problem” by not exhaling.

You’ve gotta love the big glowbull warming protest in D.C., in the middle of a major snowstorm, where NASA’s James Hanson’s propaganda line is getting so far out there that HIS creds are starting to get frayed around the edges even in the formerly slavishly adoring MSM.

Will D.C. global warming protest be the end of NASA’s climate chief?

Change is coming to Washington, D.C. tomorrow — or, at least, more warnings of climate change. On March 2, D.C. will be the site of a snowstorm and the largest public protest of global warming in history. Irony aside, the protest might also help usher in the public unraveling of NASA’s chief climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen.

Hansen, best known for his alarming testimonies on climate change, has drawn fresh criticism from colleagues and lawmakers alike after endorsing tomorrow’s Capitol Climate Action protest. Calling for “mass civil disobedience,” the protest aims to draw attention to global warming and remove all coal-burning power plants from America.

In an article with FOXNews, one of Hansen’s former supervisors, Dr. John Theon, remarked of Hansen’s involvement: “Oh my goodness. I’m not surprised. The fact that Jim Hansen has gone off the deep end here is sad because he’s a good fellow.” Theon is well-known in the scientific community for questioning Hansen’s integrity, claiming that the man abused his position and violated NASA’s position on climate forecasting.

Hansen has also been the target of several notable global warming skeptics, including “Red Hot Lies” author Chris Horner: “He’s providing ample cause to question his employment on the taxpayer dime,” Horner told FOXNews.com.

IMHO Horner is among the worst of the bad…a scientist who cooks the (data) books to make a political point. Lysenko would be proud.