GLOBAL WARMING DENIER!
Oh, wait, he admits that global warming exists...
GLOBAL WARMING IS A CATASTROPHE DENIER!
Posted on 06/01/2007 10:27:50 AM PDT by gallaxyglue
NASA Chief Sparks Global Warming Fury Scientists Denounce NASA's Michael Griffin For Saying Earth's Warming May Not Be A Concern
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2007 NASA Administrator Micahel Griffin said it would be "arrogant" to assume the world's climate should not change in the future. (NASA)
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"I have no doubt that global — that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with."
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
(AP) The head of the U.S. space agency NASA drew criticism from scientists when he said he was not sure global warming was a problem, and it would be "arrogant" to assume the world's climate should not change in the future.
"I have no doubt that global — that a trend of global warming exists," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a taped interview that aired Thursday on National Public Radio. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with."
"I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take," Griffin said.
Jerry Mahlman, a former top scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who is now at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said Griffin's remarks showed he was either "totally clueless" or "a deep anti-global warming ideologue."
James Hansen, a top NASA climate scientist, said Griffin's comments showed "arrogance and ignorance," because millions of people probably will be harmed by global warming in the future.
White House science adviser Jack Marburger said he was not disturbed by Griffin's remarks but distanced them from President Bush, who announced an international global warming proposal Thursday.
"It's pretty obvious that the NASA administrator was speaking about his own personal views and by no means representing or attempting to represent the administration's views or broader policy," Marburger told The Associated Press. "He's got a very wry sense of humor and is very outspoken."
NASA spokesman David Mould said the radio interviewer was trying to push Griffin into saying something about global warming. NASA's position is that it provides scientific data on the issue, but policymakers are the ones who decide, he said.
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER!
Oh, wait, he admits that global warming exists...
GLOBAL WARMING IS A CATASTROPHE DENIER!
Wonder how long before he’s fired? Contesting GW in any form or fashion is now about as bad as racism or sexism or homophobia. It’s the orthodoxy and you’re allowed free speech only so long as you don’t violate the PC topics list. I bet he’s gone within a month.
lol -
That’s good
He will systematically be destroyed and hounded from office.....Heresy is not tolerated.......
What need have we of any witnesses? STONE HIM! STONE HIM!
I read his remarks, and I agree with him.
The Earth’s climate has changed radically over the geological ages and very recently. Think Greenland. There are tree roots which grew through the bodies of the early settlers about 1000 years ago where there are no trees today.
talk about clueless...these global warming nuts will say anything to discredit a "global warming denier". No science to show how wrong he is though...
We are being screwed and most people don't know it, and those who do, well, to quote Peggy Noonan, too bad.
I suggest a careful reading of: ‘’Collapse’’ by Professor Jared Diamond of UCLA. It is a superior academic study of the effect of climate change on the settlers in Greenland (note the ironic name)of the 9th Century and how their failure to adapt doomed the settlement. The analytical criteria examined are amazingly informative and superbly written. He studies nine separate societies and why they failed or succeeded. The examination of the Bitter Root valley of the U.S. intermountain west lays an easily understandable predicate for the nature of such an academic endeavor.
The NASA guy says (basically) "I am not sure” -- which IMO is a reasonable stance. His opponent then brands him as "a deep anti-global warming ideologue" which IMO is a hyperbolic reaction.
Some folks rely on ad hominems because they don't have anything else.
Wait till the next sunspot minimum, somewhere 2012 - 2014. We did a double maximum — so I’m told — on the sunspot cycle, unheard of before, and the double minimum which follows ought to be a doozey.
If I follow you, that means a double minimum would result in less heat radiating from the sun?
Precisely, watch them change back to coming Ice age whining.
I guess he flunked english.
Carolyn
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