'Global warming' and 'climate change' have proven to be a great tool for indoctrinating the youth into accepting total government control over everything we do "for the Earth's sake".. Pledging allegiance NOT to our Flag, but to the Earth.. Sets them up beautifully for acceptance of global government and the abolition of American sovereignty.
0bama hates the 'American NASA' (versus the 'Mother Earth NASA') because the American NASA evoked too much patriotic nationalism for America. When's the last time NASA gave us THAT feeling, huh?