Posted on 01/12/2022 8:36:04 AM PST by devane617
NASA's growing emphasis on Earth and climate science took sharper focus this week with the appointment of an Earth scientist, Katherine Calvin, to the agency's chief scientist position.
Calvin also will serve as senior climate officer, a new title at the agency, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a press conference Tuesday.
"This is really a big deal for us... We've chosen to elevate this senior climate adviser position" to reflect new emphasis on climate change in the Biden administration, Nelson said.
Calvin has been a contributor to several major publications on climate change, including the third U.S. National Climate Assessment and two special reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Leftists ruin everything they touch. A major waste of our tax dollars.
I took over a badly overbudget project once to deliver a working airlock antenna for the ISS, a project we had through a badly mismanaged subcontract with a major contractor for NASA.
In the end, the antenna we delivered (whose materials, etc. cost about $20K) cost NASA over a million dollars. Why? I ended up having 5 (FIVE) 4-drawer filing cabinets filled nothing but contractor and NASA BS paperwork. We delivered 2 antennas (launch and a backup) and had to destroy 3 for all the BS testing they required. NASA is an ass-covering joke, IMO.
To NASA: That stuff isn’t the final frontier.
Climate change is not man made.
“NASA going down the tube. What use to be an organization with a bunch of smart guys has turned to a political hell-hole.”
Every time I say NASA has become useless, some freeper comes along to scold me about all the wonderful things NASA is currently doing. Bah. The left has infected NASA. It is no longer a bunch of smart guys, it’s a bunch of multi cultured, multi racial, multi gendered affirmative action hires.
NASA has been a bifurcated agency for a long time. They can produce an achievement like the Webb telescope on the one hand and then produce people like James Hanson and this new joker smearing feces on the wall.
Oh, there’s a few smart people still there.
They do all the work.
The aforementioned AA people populate all the meetings and suck up Teams bandwidth.
NASA was a joke even before Obama repurposed the agency for political purposes.
“an achievement like the Webb telescope”
Yeah, and that only took 2+ decades and $10B (nobody actually knows how much they spent, that’s just the marquee number).
But the key point is...no one can get blamed for anything, so cost is no object!
NASA = space, not climate change BS.
Do your frakin jobs instead of being political hacks, yeah?!
Going? Been down the drain for a long time.
Ping.
They get to kill two birds with one stone:
- a bit of affirmative action by promoting a woman to a top science post, for, I’m sure, are her superior qualifications, and of course what’s between her legs.
- and they get one more agency to propangadize the climate hoax.
By the way, what happened to NASA’s first and most important mission to be inclusive of Muslims?
Then you don’t know bill nelson.
“Yeah, and that only took 2+ decades and $10B (nobody actually knows how much they spent, that’s just the marquee number).”
Musk could have done it at a tenth of the price and time.
“The left has infected NASA. It is no longer a bunch of smart guys, it’s a bunch of multi cultured, multi racial, multi gendered affirmative action hires.”
And that’s true of every single organization, agency and corporation.
Gramsci’s plan for the “long walk through the institutions” has been a spectacular success for the left. I can’t think of a single institution not controlled by them. Can you?
NASA seems just a bit too focused on getting children involved when the myriad task(s) at hand do not require them. NASA’s first 15 years gave a kid some really great Americans to admire and for having real heroes to look up to (no pun intended) and all of them were adults, many of whom were WWII, Korea and early Vietnam veterans. Soooo, what’s up with that?
Let’s just have girls in charge of everything.
I guess they completed their work on Muslim outreach.
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