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NASA swipes back at former astronauts over climate change
Daily Caller ^ | 12:06 AM 04/12/2012 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 04/13/2012 8:46:41 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

NASA is swiping back at a group of nearly 50 of its former scientists and astronauts who wrote to accuse the space agency of advocating the “extreme” position that global warming is the result of man-made carbon dioxide.

In a March 28 letter addressed to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, 49 former employees said the “unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.”

But NASA responded on Wednesday by saying they don’t “draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research findings.”

“We support open scientific inquiry and discussion,” NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati said in a statement provided to The Daily Caller.

“If the authors of this letter disagree with specific scientific conclusions made public by NASA scientists, we encourage them to join the debate in the scientific literature or public forums rather than restrict any discourse,” Abdalati said.

He added: “NASA sponsors research into many areas of cutting-edge scientific inquiry, including the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; climategate; climategate2; giss; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hansen; jameshansen; nasa; nasaletter
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Cutting edge scientific inquiry” my arse. It’s a RELIGION!


21 posted on 04/13/2012 10:18:14 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: rlmorel

and you can actually study the earth legitimately!
Anyone remember or hear about IGY International Geophysical Year (1957-1958)?


22 posted on 04/13/2012 10:19:50 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati”

We are so screwed.


23 posted on 04/13/2012 10:37:29 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“We support open scientific inquiry and discussion,” NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati said

Waleed Abdalati is a liar.
"The debate is over."
"There is a consensus."
"Deniers! Flat-earthers!"

Waleed Abdalati can go play in the street. He's not fit to shine the shoes of any astronaut.

24 posted on 04/13/2012 11:34:21 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"But NASA responded on Wednesday by saying they don’t “draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research findings.”
I bet if they where told they no longer can fund anything related to GISS, they would take a quick turn around in their thinking.
25 posted on 04/13/2012 2:11:02 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"He added: “NASA sponsors research into many areas of cutting-edge scientific inquiry, including the relationship between carbon dioxide and climate.”
Sure they do. Like Hansen changing raw data input into his useless programs when he sees fit to hide the declines.
26 posted on 04/13/2012 2:19:49 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
feh...
27 posted on 04/13/2012 2:56:34 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: rlmorel

LOL!


28 posted on 04/13/2012 5:00:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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29 posted on 04/13/2012 6:12:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: pgkdan

...and proud of our government, too; even the President.

(Sigh!) Days long past, and most unlikely to return.


30 posted on 04/13/2012 8:38:55 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Reily

Antarctic ice cores. Ozone hole (Oops!) USS Nautilus to the North Pole. Van Allen Belts. Project MOHO.

Project MOHO?!?

Anyone hearing that today would think it was referring to a Hip-Hopper candidate’s political slogan. “Elect me mayor and I will enact Project MoHo: 2 B****s in every crib!”


31 posted on 04/13/2012 8:54:55 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Yes by the way if I remember correctly the Ozone studies then were correctly (as we know now!) attributing the fluctations in Ozone (the “hole”) to natural causes.

I thought MOHO was so so cool!

32 posted on 04/14/2012 6:28:49 AM PDT by Reily
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To: ApplegateRanch
Yes by the way if I remember correctly the Ozone studies then were correctly (as we know now!) attributing the fluctuations in Ozone (the “hole”) to natural causes.

I thought MOHO was so so cool!

33 posted on 04/14/2012 6:29:01 AM PDT by Reily
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To: rlmorel

Let me guess NASA is now required by law to have to hire Muslims via affirmative action? Waleed Abdalati was hired on his merits or because he was Muslim? Do Muslims even believe there is an outter space in their 12th century mindset?


34 posted on 04/14/2012 10:00:26 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Marine_Uncle
But NASA responded on Wednesday by saying they don’t “draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research findings.”

Hmm. Wasn't this one of their documented problems regarding warnings from Morton Thiokol engineers about launching Challenger in sub-zero temperatures?

35 posted on 04/23/2012 10:18:10 AM PDT by onedoug
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RE: "Hmm. Wasn't this one of their documented problems regarding warnings from Morton Thiokol engineers about launching Challenger in sub-zero temperatures?"
I can't say I remember that issue. But I get where your coming from.
36 posted on 04/23/2012 12:40:37 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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