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NASA's Griffin Regrets Remarks on Global Warming
Sci-Tech Today ^ | June 6, 2007 | Alicia Chang

Posted on 06/06/2007 2:15:51 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative

NASA administrator Michael Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public Radio interviewer he wasn't sure global warming was a problem. "All I can really do is apologize to all you guys ... I feel badly that I caused this amount of controversy over something like this," said Griffin.

The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.

NASA administrator Michael Griffin said in the closed-door meeting Monday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that "unfortunately, this is an issue which has become far more political than technical and it would have been well for me to have stayed out of it."

"All I can really do is apologize to all you guys ... I feel badly that I caused this amount of controversy over something like this," he said.

Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public Radio interviewer he wasn't sure global warming was a problem.

"I have no doubt that ... a trend of global warming exists," Griffin said on NPR. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

The radio interview angered some climate scientists, who called his remarks ignorant.

An international panel this year predicted that uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions could drive up global temperatures and trigger heat waves, devastating droughts and super storms. Observations by NASA satellites show evidence of rapidly melting glaciers and shrinking of critical marine plant life due to warmer seas.

Griffin reiterated that NASA's job was to provide scientific data on global warming and leave it up to policy makers to decide what to do with it.

Griffin told JPL workers he tried to separate his opinions during the NPR interview, but that it got "lost in the shuffle."

"Doing media interviews is an art. Their goal is usually to generate controversy because it sells interviews and papers and my goal is usually to avoid controversy," he said.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blaspheminggore; climatechange; ecofascism; energy; globalwarming; gorepardon; griffin; religionofgore; repentence
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Notice how carefully he declines to actually disavow said unpopular opinion. He deserves an attaboy for his well-crafted apology.
1 posted on 06/06/2007 2:15:52 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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To: xcamel; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ping


2 posted on 06/06/2007 2:16:23 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Yep, he went off the reservation and the global warming zealots went after him with their typical Orwelllian tactics. These people need to be stopped.


3 posted on 06/06/2007 2:17:27 PM PDT by PeterFinn (Oberint Dum Metuant - "Let them Hate, as long as they Fear.")
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Score one for the thought police...
4 posted on 06/06/2007 2:17:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Import fruit, not illegal pickers.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
LOL, was he ever told to "get his mind right."

The Thought Police have struck again.

5 posted on 06/06/2007 2:18:04 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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6 posted on 06/06/2007 2:19:27 PM PDT by xcamel ("It's Thompson Time!")
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To: PeterFinn

posts 3, 4 and 5 all reference 1984 in 37 seconds. Who says that great minds think alike?


7 posted on 06/06/2007 2:19:46 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
NASA's Griffin Regrets Remarks on Global Warming Interview with NPR
8 posted on 06/06/2007 2:20:30 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

In what other scientific field does one have to apologize for holding a particular viewpoint?


9 posted on 06/06/2007 2:20:52 PM PDT by posterchild (How did trees absorb CO2 before carbon funds started collecting money to manage the process?)
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To: KC Burke

“The Thought Police have struck again.” ...and LOST!

He basically said, “I’m sorry my opinion bothers you, or has caused you trouble”.


10 posted on 06/06/2007 2:20:59 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

There is a streak of fascism in the science community that gives one pause.


11 posted on 06/06/2007 2:21:06 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

It’s really bad to diss someone’s religion. And global warming of Mother Earth has become a religion.


12 posted on 06/06/2007 2:22:15 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

he regrets airing his personal views about global warming

All the proponents have are personal views...........


13 posted on 06/06/2007 2:22:42 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: KC Burke

Man, all within a minute. I guess it’s so terribly obvious what is really going on here. It isn’t about global warming at all, it’s just the War on Communism (WoC) being fought on a different front. Every time you think you have those roaches stopmed they come at you from a different direction.


14 posted on 06/06/2007 2:23:45 PM PDT by PeterFinn (Oberint Dum Metuant - "Let them Hate, as long as they Fear.")
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

An apology like Galleleo’s.... repent ye who commit heresy against the Church of Global Warming


15 posted on 06/06/2007 2:24:02 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Paris Hilton - dong more jailtime than Sandy Berger.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Has St. Al of Gore granted him absolution? Or will he be burnt at the stake using a renewable biofuel?


16 posted on 06/06/2007 2:24:28 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Frank_Discussion

Oh, I know he worded his apology with artfulness but it is still disgusting to see a person in moderate authority in a science agency having to cow-tow to leftist mythology.


17 posted on 06/06/2007 2:24:41 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Since when does anyone care about ANYTHING said on NPR?


18 posted on 06/06/2007 2:26:13 PM PDT by Dutch14 (The last one out of the circus has to lock up everything...)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

I agree. My daughter has a degree in HydroGeology from the Department of GeoSciences - University of Texas Austin...
She said that at the UT GeoScience Department
Global Warming is a big joke not worth discussing!


19 posted on 06/06/2007 2:26:14 PM PDT by buffyt (I hope it gets a little warmer up north. I’ve always wanted to hunt polar bears but it's too cold!)
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To: KC Burke

I agree, but Griffin’s a pretty pragmatic fella, and this is far as he’ll go. He did jab them in the collective eye a bit...


20 posted on 06/06/2007 2:28:12 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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