Good attempt at spin, but they are fully onboard with the 'global warming' scam. So much for 'intellectual honesty' and not behaving like 'global warming fanatics'.
Here's their 'Climate Change' website. http://climate.nasa.gov/
Funding based alarmism here: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
You can't really expect them to concentrate on space since they are now a climate change and muslim outreach agency. Not a lot of 'right stuff' left since they got rid of the Germans.
Big difference between climate and space rocks.
Seriously, if you want alarmism related to space, look up bpearthwatch.
He hasn’t been right yet, but some people follow his every flatulent uttering as if it were the word of a god.
Seriously, we aren’t dead from Ison, Elenin, YU55, etc yet.
But he insisted that we would, also insisted that earthquakes were produced by same.
(Lol, plate tectonics fail on his part.)
No, the NEO is part of the Solar Dynamics group at JPL. Seems to be an entirely different culture from certain other parts of NASA. These guys are real scientists. For one thing they make verifiable predictions. If they say that a moon of Saturn will occlude a seventh magnitude star at in a certain time interval, literally thousands of amateurs will be watching.
With the end of the Cold War, a lot of rice bowls got shattered. NOAA and the environmental monitoring branches of NASA glommed onto ozone layer depletion and global warming to keep as much rice bowl as they could. And an industry was born.
One of the objections that real scientist have raised about global warming hysteria is that it will hurt the reputation of science in general and atmospheric science specifically. There are a lot of charlatans in the Global Warming Industry, but very, very few in astronomy, because astronomy it is subject to verification.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an embarrassment, but not an outright charlatan. Bill Nye is both.