NASA Chief Sparks Global Warming Fury

CBS News ^ | May 31, 2007 | AP

[dirtboy]

GLOBAL WARMING DENIER!

Oh, wait, he admits that global warming exists...

GLOBAL WARMING IS A CATASTROPHE DENIER!

[saganite]

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.

[Red6]

lol -

That’s good

[Red Badger]

He will systematically be destroyed and hounded from office.....Heresy is not tolerated.......

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What need have we of any witnesses? STONE HIM! STONE HIM!

[Citizen Tom Paine]

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.

[chaos_5]

Facts don't matter, selling carbon credits is going to be a big business and they will not allow some two bit NASA scientist derail that scam.

[Edgerunner]

"He's got a very wry sense of humor and is very outspoken."

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...

[GSWarrior]

I don't think we are going to win this one. Carbon trading, taxes on excessive carbon footprints...it's gonna happen in one form or another.

We are being screwed and most people don't know it, and those who do, well, to quote Peggy Noonan, too bad.

[middie]

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.

[ClearCase_guy]

To sum up this sort of debate:

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.

[Sundog]

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.

[billybudd]

Jerry Mahlman ... said Griffin's remarks showed he was either "totally clueless" or "a deep anti-global warming ideologue."

Wow, so just suggesting that global warming may not necessarily be a problem automatically makes one an ideologue? I guess we know who the real ideologue is here.

[GSWarrior]

If I follow you, that means a double minimum would result in less heat radiating from the sun?

[SF Republican]

How do you determine what is the “best/perfect” climate for every micro-climate in the world?

[Otaku6]

Precisely, watch them change back to coming Ice age whining.

[tje]

I guess he flunked english.

[CDHart]

I heard that interview - he makes a lot of sense, IMO.

Carolyn

[VOA]

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