NASA Chief Questions Global Warming Problem

[Rhino]

NASA Chief Questions Whether Global Warming Is a Problem

Thursday, May 31, 2007

President Bush called on 15 nations Thursday to set greenhouse gas emission standards, hours after the head of his space program questioned whether global warming is really a problem.

"I have no doubt that global — that a trend of global warming exists," NASA administrator Michael Griffin told National Public Radio's Morning Edition in an interview that aired Thursday. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

On Thursday, Bush delivered remarks to U.S. Global Leadership Campaign at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., ahead of his Group of Eight summit in Germany next week. The president called for a series of meetings in the fall to set a target goal for greenhouse emission standards.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276722,00.html

[Naturalized-Texan]

And Michael Griffin is being vilified for telling the truth.

[DesertFox]

But of course. The truth isn't allowed anymore.

[DoctorDoom]

Here's the full transcript of the interview.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Not Sure That Global Warming Is A Problem (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.rss.spacewire.html?pid=22736)

Here's the sort of thinking that is totally absent in Saint AlBore's Church of Gorebull Warming.

MR. INSKEEP: And I just wanted to make sure that I'm clear. Do you have any doubt that this is a problem that mankind has to wrestle with?

DR. GRIFFIN: I have no doubt that global - that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had, and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change.

First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown. And second of all, 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'm - I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take.No doubt Dr. Al will tell him that he's wrong, as he did MIT's Dr. Richard Lindzen.

[sunsettommy]

And Michael Griffin is being vilified for telling the truth.

A dead give away for politics in action.

[nene]

I'm just doing my part in preventing the next Ice Age. I cut the grass, grilled, and floored it on I35, all in one day. Yup, I be saving my peeps.

[DoctorDoom]

Dr. Griffin has been effectively silenced by the GW religionists.

LOS ANGELES - 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.NASA chief regrets remarks on global warming (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19058588)

"... (T)his is an issue which has become far more political than technical ..." He has that dead right. It's pure leftist politics without a shred of real science.