Posted on 05/30/2018 7:02:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nasa’s output of climate change information aimed at the public has dwindled under the Trump administration, with a former employee claiming “fear and anxiety” within the agency has led to an online retreat from the issue.
Laura Tenenbaum, a former science communicator for Nasa, said she was warned off using the term “global warming” on social media and restricted in speaking to the media due to her focus on climate change.
“Nasa’s talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true,” said Tenenbaum, who departed Nasa in October after a decade at the space agency.
“They have stopped promoting or emphasizing climate science communication, they have minimized it. People inside the agency are concerned Trump will cut climate science funding. There is a fear and anxiety there and the outcome has been chaos.”
Tenenbaum said that around a month after Trump’s inauguration last year an “arduous review process” was put in place over every blog post, Facebook post and tweet that she put out from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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I recently took an engineering ethics course, which is required for the renewal of my professional license. The Columbia and Challenger disasters were specifically covered, focusing on the decision making process.
1. Groupthink
2. “Take off your engineer hat and put on your management hat.” Yes, that phrase was used when concerns were raised about the o rings prior to launch.
“Business as usual” gets reset to business as chartered
In fairness, powdered graphite (a conductor) from pencil lead doesn’t mix well with microswitches and other sensitive electrical devices, and can also get into the eyes of the astronauts.
But can it write under whipped cream? I think not.
Love, Curley
Earth science IS one of NASA’s missions, its just that the agency needs to get back to collecting science, not trying to prove a (false) thesis.
Personally, except for retards like the author of the article and the dismissed employee, the science collection really hasn’t changed much. There is tremendous value in understanding the Earth environment as we learn how to predict weather, ward off REAL man made disasters like poor agriculture habits that cause top soil erosion (really bad in Africa for example), see the effects deforestation in the Amazon, understand ocean currents and El Ninio/ La Nina cycles, etc. These are all valid and worthy collections.
The hardest science in the world has been weather prediction, but the latest instruments on the NASA GOES weather satellites can now do lightning mapping and help better predict storms to aid aviation safety and provide better storm warning.
But starting out with the premise that man made CO2 (a plant fertilizer) is causing global warming and trying to prove this by manufacturing the data is not science. Its just propaganda fodder.
Earth science IS one of NASA’s missions, its just that the agency needs to get back to collecting science, not trying to prove a (false) thesis.
Personally, except for retards like the author of the article and the dismissed employee, the science collection really hasn’t changed much. There is tremendous value in understanding the Earth environment as we learn how to predict weather, ward off REAL man made disasters like poor agriculture habits that cause top soil erosion (really bad in Africa for example), see the effects deforestation in the Amazon, understand ocean currents and El Ninio/ La Nina cycles, etc. These are all valid and worthy collections.
The hardest science in the world has been weather prediction, but the latest instruments on the NASA GOES weather satellites can now do lightning mapping and help better predict storms to aid aviation safety and provide better storm warning.
But starting out with the premise that man made CO2 (a plant fertilizer) is causing global warming and trying to prove this by manufacturing the data is not science. Its just propaganda fodder.
Crap, two double posts in a week. I need to start drinking coffee again.
I thought the roll of NASA was to make Muslims feel good about themselves?
Climate is something that exists on earth.
NASA trivialized their missions with the Rainbow Kidz crew selection and handing out space joy rides like candy to friendly foreign nations.
NASA trivialized their missions with ‘a first grader designed this experiment’ and ‘watch us blow soap bubbles.’
NASA trivialized their missions with chirpy PR announcements during launches about having ‘two mice, three guinea pigs, a ferret and a partridge in a pear tree!’ aboard.
NASA trivialized their missions with cheesy wake-up music pushed by their PR arm to every news outlet, proving nothing more than a) NASA had crap taste in music and b) they went for the obvious joke every time.
NASA trivialized their missions by having far too many of them.
NASA trivialized their missions and in the process trivialized themselves. If they wound up as a trifle it had nothing to do with the most recent two years of the White House occupant.
Gotta love the Russians. The last thing I’d want in zero g would be conductive graphite particles floating around my electronics. Or lungs.
I banned pencils in my cleanrooms decades ago!
Well stated. That should go for EVERY single person who touches one taxpayer cent.
...as you say...
Nasa’s(sic) output of leftist propaganda aimed at the public has dwindled under the Trump administration, with a former employee claiming “fear and anxiety” within the agency has led to an online retreat from the issue...
Here is why—NASA is a PR con while the real action is elsewhere:
https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Reveal-Programs-Extraterrestrial-Alliances/dp/0982290284
Because, unlike before, they will now be called out on their lies, half truths and "mays and mights" (MAY result in...MIGHT cause...)
That space pen story is an urban legend.
Both the US and Russia used pencils. After the Apollo One fire NASA wanted something that wouldn’t burn. The space pen was developed by private industry. It is now used by both the US and Russian space programs.
Let alone ANYONE at the JPL.
(my tagline...)
Good! We recently visited Rocket Park in Houston. So sad to see what NASA was and has since abandoned to PC.
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