McClatchy
By LuLu Liu | Sacramento Bee
Worldwide, 2010 is on track to become the warmest year on record.
Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies reported recently that the average global temperature was higher over the past 12 months than during any other 12-month period in history. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released corroborating data, adding that the past four months, including June, have each individually been the hottest on record as well….
Things sure seems to have changed at NASA.
Some years ago, the strongest man on earth, President George W. Bush, opposed “hot weather” headlines from NASA. Direct political intervention into scientific findings was rare until the advent of the neocons. Generally, scientists would expose their findings to the scientific world in order to test the validity of their findings. But President Bush had a business interest in findings relating to changing weather patterns. And what NASA was whispering could have a negative influence on the bottom line of BIG BUSINESS.
The Bush team got their man a job at NASA. America discovered the Bush appointee when news accounts were made public. And here is one of them:
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA
The New York Times
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
February 8, 2006
George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
Mr. Deutsch’s resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.
Officials at NASA headquarters declined to discuss the reason for the resignation.
“Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters,” said Dean Acosta, the deputy assistant administrator for public affairs and Mr. Deutsch’s boss.
The resignation came as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing to review its policies for communicating science to the public. The review was ordered Friday by Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, after a week in which many agency scientists and midlevel public affairs officials described to The New York Times instances in which they said political pressure was applied to limit or flavor discussions of topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, particularly global warming. …
Perhaps the neocons wanted proof that the world was getting warmer. Nobody had an equation that data could be plugged into that proved there was a climate change. But still, some human beings liked to know what was coming before it arrived.
Evidence of a warming trend would be undeniable if one morning you awoke, looked out your window and saw an iceberg from the North Pole. One would know that warm weather was here and perhaps there was time to prepare for the warm weather. But perhaps by then “REACT to the warm weather” might better qualify.
It is nice to see the “muzzle” has been removed from NASA. NASA is doing a better scientific job than the neocons did a political job.
Tags: add the word theory at every mention of the "big bang", Bush team, job at nasa, limit reporters access to top climate scientists, NASA, president george w. bush, warm weather
July 29, 2010 at 11:26 pm |
Visit http://www.wattsupwiththat.com for a rude awakening on the bias that NASA has and have another view on the so called “global warming”
If your a fan of an Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore you should hear about the mistakes that have been called out by a court in the UK, it makes you question the validity of the pro global warming arguments.
But hey, good post, I have switched my opinion but only through my own research as a lay man, do your own viewing both sides rather than what NASA says.
TJ
https://stagebound.wordpress.com