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The fact that NASA has the spare time and money to sit around and crank out policy papers regarding a predicted calamitous downfall of society indicates that it needs to be completely defunded and dissolved as a government agency. Period.

"completely defunded and dissolved as a government agency."

The cancer of bureaucracy and mediocrity has metastasized to the point where it's hard to see any other alternative...

NASA is not a monolithic organization. There are multiple centers, each with different missions and objectives. Some entire centers need to be shut down in my opinion, I agree, but others are still very important.

Fun fact, the Siding Spring survey in Australia was put on the financial chopping block around the same time they happened to discover a comet that was initially a threat to impact Mars at an astonishing 57 km/sec, releasing approximately a billion megatons of energy. Instead of viewing this as a wake-up call that objects like that one can come out of the Oort cloud and strike inner solar system planets with barely more than a year's warning, the Siding Spring survey was given the axe while global warming alarmism continues to suck more and more cash. The end result is that we have less coverage now of the southern celestial sphere and objects can go undiscovered for longer periods of time giving us less warning if any at all.

For example, C/2014 E2 Jacques was just discovered last week at magnitude 11. With a proper modern systematic survey such a comet should have been found well before now when it was still only magnitude 16+. Wouldn't it be nice if we could shut down funding Hansen's alarmist pals at the Goddard Institute and divert those funds to JPL's Near-Earth Object Program so that we could have our own southern hemisphere survey of the sky to look for potential threats to our planet? Or launch more space telescopes to complement the NEOWISE mission? Some at NASA are doing very important work, and they could do more if we could shut down the NASA centers that are making an embarrassment out of the rest of NASA.