Even the Pope sides with Futurecurrents

Discussion in 'Politics' started by nitro, Jun 16, 2015.

  1. Ricter

    Ricter

    But of course NASA can't shut down that NASA agency because that agency is not part of NASA. Which makes one question the intelligence of NASA employees if they're demanding it.
     
    #861     Jan 28, 2016

  2. Yes Ric, there a bunch of Republican astronauts and janitors that are very mad at NASA.
     
    #862     Jan 28, 2016
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's help you remember some recent history...

    NASA Global Warming Stance Blasted By 49 Astronauts, Scientists
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/nasa-global-warming-letter-astronauts_n_1418017.html

    Is NASA playing fast and loose with climate change science? That's the contention of a group of 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts.


    On March 28 the group sent a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr., blasting the agency for making unwarranted claims about the role of carbon dioxide in global warming, Business Insider reported.


    "We believe the claims by NASA and GISS [NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies], that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data," the group wrote. "With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled."


    The group features some marquee names, including Michael F. Collins, Walter Cunningham and five other Apollo astronauts, as well as two former directors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.


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    Currently there is a bill in Congress to shut down all climate funding for NASA which requires that the climate.nasa.gov website be taken down. I am looking for to the next President signing it into law.
     
    #863     Jan 28, 2016
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  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    They can shut off all NASA funding of this external university organization.... as per a current bill in Congress demands. This will also drive the removal of the climate.nasa.gov website.
     
    #864     Jan 28, 2016
  5. Ricter

    Ricter

    Fun to watch them twist and squirm.

    Probably some petroleum geologists, working for ExxonMobil, have asked executive management to take down the company's website statement on manmade global warming, since the geologists are not part of media relations!
     
    #865     Jan 28, 2016
  6. Ricter

    Ricter

    Most of NASA is "external". They're all over the country.
     
    #866     Jan 28, 2016
  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    #867     Jan 28, 2016
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Explain yourself....

    Most of NASA is direct employees of NASA.

    Over 1/2 of their budget however is projects contracted out to companies (that build space equipment like the shuttles & rovers) and universities for research.

    NASA should strictly focus on their space mission. NASA should not be funding a university to provide climate research. Climate research is not the primary mission of NASA and clearly is outside their scope.

    There is another federal agency that already covers weather and climate - it is NOAA. All "climate change" funding should be placed with NOAA.
     
    #868     Jan 28, 2016
  9. The study is probably wrong. The bulk of the evidence and the best satellite data shows that the ice mass is decreasing.

    It contradicts numerous prior scientific claims, including a 2012 study in Science by a small army of polar scientists, a study from earlier this year in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (which found 92 gigatons of net losses per year) and this 2014 study in Geophysical Research Letters (160 gigatons of net losses per year). It also contradicts assertions by the leading consensus body of climate science, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which stated in 2013 that Antarctica is “losing mass” and that this process is accelerating. That statement was itself based on multiple studies showing Antarctic ice loss.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ning-ice-heres-why-you-should-stay-skeptical/
     
    #869     Jan 28, 2016
  10. Ricter

    Ricter

    Except for those darn satellites they're putting up, to measure ice mass and Earth's energy budget, of course.
     
    #870     Jan 28, 2016