Michael Griffin: "unfortunately, this is an issue which has become far more political than technical..."
Posted on 06/06/2007 2:15:51 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
NASA administrator Michael Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public Radio interviewer he wasn't sure global warming was a problem. "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," said Griffin.
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.
"I have no doubt that ... a trend of global warming exists," Griffin said on NPR. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."
The radio interview angered some climate scientists, who called his remarks ignorant.
An international panel this year predicted that uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions could drive up global temperatures and trigger heat waves, devastating droughts and super storms. Observations by NASA satellites show evidence of rapidly melting glaciers and shrinking of critical marine plant life due to warmer seas.
Griffin reiterated that NASA's job was to provide scientific data on global warming and leave it up to policy makers to decide what to do with it.
Griffin told JPL workers he tried to separate his opinions during the NPR interview, but that it got "lost in the shuffle."
"Doing media interviews is an art. Their goal is usually to generate controversy because it sells interviews and papers and my goal is usually to avoid controversy," he said.
I take issue with your argument, not because it's wrong, it's not, but because it let's the claim stand that CO2 causes global warming.
If CO2 really causes warming, then they have a point. But if it doesn't they need to go pound sand ....
CO2 concentrations of 200ppm, 300ppm or 400ppm doesn't matter, all absorb 100% of the Infra Red in its absorption spectrum well before that heat escapes out into space. As an analogy hold a sheet of paper up in front of a light bulb. You can see light through it can't you. Now hold up two sheets some light still gets through. Three sheets? Well at some point it doesn't matter. More sheets of paper won't hold back any more light. Same is true with CO2. Higher concentrations don't hold back anymore heat.
Water Vapor world over, about 18,000 parts per million (ppm). Carbon Dioxide, 350 ppm.
Average molecular mass of air (N2, O2): 28 amu. Molecular mass of CO2: 44 amu.
Geologic flux of atmospheric CO2 is primarily artefact. The Earth warms, Venus warms, Mars warms: proportionally more atmospheric CO2 as per Boltzman kinetics vs escape velocity.
Anthropogenic CO2 not even close to being any cause of anything.
Al Gore is just an ignorant juvenile who needs attention, pretty much the same as all professional politicians, (and Hollywood).
No argument here against cutting oil dependence, but deceit and incompetence doesn't advance that agenda one iota.
Can anyone here tell me what the average temp of the earth should be??
All this does is give his opinion more air play. At no point does he reverse his original statement. Take a look at this guys education he is just about the most qualified person in the world to talk about climate change.
Dr. Griffin holds seven degrees, and is pursuing his eighth. In chronological order of attainment, Dr. Griffin’s degrees include:
* BS Physics (The Johns Hopkins University, 1971)
* MS Aerospace Science (The Catholic University of America, 1974)
* PhD Aerospace Engineering (University of Maryland, College Park, 1977)
* MEng Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California, 1979)
* MS Applied Physics (The Johns Hopkins University, 1983)
* MBA Master of Business Administration (Loyola College in Maryland)
* MEng Civil Engineering (The George Washington University, 1998)
Dr. Griffin was also working toward an MS in computer science at Johns Hopkins University before being appointed as NASA chief. Dr. Griffin has been a professor at various universities, teaching courses in spacecraft design, applied mathematics, guidance and navigation, compressible flow, computational fluid dynamics, spacecraft altitude control, astrodynamics, and introductory aerospace engineering. He is the lead author of more than two dozen technical papers, and is co-author with James R. French of the graduate astronautical engineering textbook, “Space Vehicle Design.” ISBN 1-56347-539-1 Dr. Griffin is also a general aviation flight instructor and pilot, and part-owner of a small airplane.
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Well done
What a pathetically politickle pantload!!! Just disgusting!!!
No! He has to buy mucho (a little illegal alien lingo there) ox Gored indulgences, first!!!
:)
I’m saw-ree... Sow saw-ree that I wuz such a fool... but I luv the truth and I wuz too blind to see... Your current flight of fanciful pharcical sillyness... (we interrupt this tune to ask the audience if they been given these GovernMental EnvironMental Religious Clerics any way out pharmacuticals lately that make them hate truthful actual scientific methods)
The problem is that if you dis global warming in any of the Liberal Arts departments you will soon be found lying in the middle of 6th Street with a pick axe in your head.
This is what happens when you make the error of committing truth.
Does anyone know how times the temperature at the north pole has been above freezing? Ill give the answer in awhile.
Never....since we have been measuring it.
RE: “any way out pharmacuticals”
Actually, with them, I don’t think the problem is drug-induced. ...I think it’s genetic.
Y'know, the 'Global-Cooling' scare-tactics of the '70s just couldn't get any traction. Probably due to the possibility of having to convert B-52s into giant 'cropdusters' to spread carbon-black on the Northern and Southern ice sheets to melt the fast-freezing water and warm the world. Everybody knew it was bull$hit, so the idea fizzled before the money-angle could be proposed.
Remember, follow the money!
The 'gases-in-the-atmosphere' crap didn't start with CO2, but IIRC, it started with CFCs like Freons. 'They' said that the Freon was going up and destroying the ozone-layer in the stratosphere - there was a hole over the South Pole, don'tcha-know. The fact that Freon molecules zoom to the ground because they're heavier than air (same as CO2) was irrelevant. They had to go! The stuff that replaced Freon is even heavier.
The money-angle on Freon apparently had something to do with getting more firms manufacturing refridgerant.
Once people could be fooled into thinking that heavier-than-air gases could float up, the stage was set for another scam, so the buzzword that was chosen was 'Greenhouse', as in greenhouse-gases. CO2 was the first boogeyman gas, and methane (cow-farts) was added later because, well, there are lots of cows. algore jumped in because, well, he's algore and he's as smart as a cow.
Now, the money part of the scam (all this 'Global-Warming' bull$hit is a con-game, y'know) is to somehow convince people that it's necessary for somebody else to spend their money to save the world, i.e. the people have to want it! The cracks in the scam were really showing last winter when people started measuring snow in feet instead of inches, and the new boogyword became 'Climate-Change', but people were getting suspicious. The new Religion had a name-change. That don't look good! Gotta do something fast!
'Carbon-Credits' was an idea tossed out at the very beginning of the CO2 scam whereby the wealthy, industrialized Countries (USA) that burn lots of fossil fuels would somehow buy credits from the poor, backward Countries (them) that only burned camelshit, and somehow, this socialist notion would make everything alright. The details were never worked out then, because the scam was just starting. The cardboard box was set up, but the walnut halves and the pea were still in the Flim-Flam-Mans' pocket.
We know that algore generates tons of CO2, and all of his houses even more, but it's OK, because he's buying 'Carbon-Credits', and that somehow offsets his obscene gluttonny when it comes to generating CO2. Whoops - algore invented the Internet - algore's buying those carbon-credits from a Company that he himself owns - bummer! Well, who else lined-up to buy carbon-credits from algores' company? Anyone? ... Hello? ...
I learned a very long time ago that a successful scam is like a good pitch in baseball. It's a lonnnnng sloooww currrrve, with a fastbreak. The first step was to invent the sky falling problem without sounding like Chicken Little, and get a few followers. Step two is to turn it into a Religion so its' authenticity is faith-based, thus going unquestioned, and convert the sheeples to your Religion. Step three is to pretend to solve the problem, and then shear the sheeple to pay for the solution, and keep the money! Step one went OK because practically nobody was listening, but some reference papers about the theory got published.
We were well along the way towards the Unanimity of the Religion of the Flim-Flam-Man when algores Internet burped out some actual science. Exposed algore too. Everything happens so fast these days, and it's mostly because of the rapid exchange of information. The moonbat, Flim-Flam Religion was a 8:5 favourite for a while there, but it's starting to look like 'Global-Climate-Warming-Change' is gonna be a fizzle. They tried to set-up the fleecing part too soon because the sky-falling problem was getting exposed.
It doesn't mean that the High Priests of the Religion (damn that a$$hole, algore) are gonna walk away - they've got a helluva lot of Capital invested in this scam, both monetary and Political. The dhimmicRATS get a lot of money from the Hollyweird moonbats, and those vacuum-heads want something for their dough. Fortunately, most of them are wasteful sumbitches who are easily exposed by their excessive lifestyles. Unfortunately, they don't give a rats ass because they're the glitterati, and have a 'Do as I Say' mentality.
There'll be some noise through the warm days of summer, and if we get some hurricanes, they'll be blamed on G-C-W-C, but it'll all be passe' by the end of next winter. Let's do Hybrid Cars next (stupid, wasteful, dangerous idea), and then, Ethanol (INCREDIBLY stupid idea). ........................ FRegards
Ping ...................... FRegards
Interesting. Maybe more global-alarmists will [at least occasionally] use their noggins, instead of allowing themselves to be brain-washed.
I'm glad to hear this.
Good question. We know that the global alarmists are reactionaries. But we don't know how far back they wish to go.
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