[taildragger]

It was in 2001 because we just missed the having Al Gore as POTUS and in the Forum Tent at the Oshkosh Airshow famous aircraft designer Burt Rutan didn't talk airplanes much, but went on a rant.

His rant was Al was full of it, he looked at the "Mann" data of Global Warming and said it was flawed from his scientific perspective and yes as a aero-engineer of the highest order, he is a scientist. The one date point that stuck with me was when the earths temp went up after the Soviets closed down all their airbases in the coldest regions and stopped reporting the temps as they collapsed.

He then when on to say a greater threat is an asteroid strike and that we have nothing (think rocket reconfigured etc) to stop it.

Other than some NASA $ I think at the tail end of the Trump Administration, we haven't done Ugats to address what is the real threat.

[nicollo]

The one date point that stuck with me was when the earths temp went up after the Soviets closed down all their airbases in the coldest regions and stopped reporting the temps as they collapsed.

Wow, and but of course. What an amazing thing to have heard that Rutan talk!