NASA Chief: Global Warming is Real Because I Have Cancer

Breitbart ^ | 1/18/2016 | James Delingpole

[Jan_Sobieski]

A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change alarmism. Here is how Piers Sellers (pictured) – acting director of NASA’s Earth Sciences division – begins his New York Times article:

I'm a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I've spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which is best viewed through a multidecadal lens. At some level I was sure that, even at my present age of 60, I would live to see the most critical part of the problem, and its possible solutions, play out in my lifetime. Now that my personal horizon has been steeply foreshortened, I was forced to decide how to spend my remaining time. Was continuing to think about climate change worth the bother?

At the risk of being ungracious to the terminally ill, the correct answer to that question on any number of levels is "No." But Sellers disagrees. He uses that intro as an excuse to spout the usual litany of nonsense so beloved by the climate alarmist establishment - "steady accumulation of evidence", "climate change is real", "computer models", "unforeseen, disastrous events" – expecting his audience to receive it sympathetically because, hell, he's got terminal cancer and if he says something is important it jolly well must be, right?

[erkelly]

I’d sure like to know this guy’s drinking habits are before I convinced that hot weather had anything to do with his pancreatic cancer. I would also like to know if he has diabetes. My personal observation, is that people who drink way too much, whether they live in Alaska where it is cold, or or Arizona where it is hot; are far more likely to succumb to this disease, than those who are temperate.