Global Warming Assumptions
The Administrator for NASA, Michael Griffin, recently was interviewed by NPR. The following quote makes more sense than all of the hot air spewed by the self ordained high priest of the new religion of Global Warming, AlGore, about and around this subject in the last 2 years. Go to the NPR website to listen to the whole interview.
Griffin tells it like it is in a non-political way.
Steve Inskeep (NPR):
Do you have any doubt that this is a problem that mankind has to wrestle with?
NASA administrator Michael Griffin:
I have no doubt 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 think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take.
posted by VPCheney @ 3:12 PM
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And a has-been aeronautical engineer GOP-bot who’s raked in government money since Ronnie Ray-gun’s Star-Wars days is qualified to talk about climate-change exactly how?
Ask NPR. They did the interview. Griffin precisely answered each of the questions he was asked without becoming an advocate for or against Gore's "Religion of Global Warming", which is refreshing. He didn't share the agenda of the biggest fad since Y2K, nor did he advocate action or inaction. One of NASA's defined missions is to study the climate, not make strategic decisions on climate change.
By the way, Mr. Anonymous Genius' cheap shot description of Mr. Griffin as a has-been is obviously misinformed ...
Here are some highlights from Michael Griffin's bio:
Prior to being nominated as NASA Administrator, Griffin was serving as Space Department Head at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. He was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of In-Q-Tel, Inc., and also served in several positions within Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va., including Chief Executive Officer of Orbital's Magellan Systems division and General Manager of the Space Systems Group.
Earlier in his career, Griffin served as chief engineer and as associate administrator for Exploration at NASA, and as deputy for technology at the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University, where he taught courses in spacecraft design, applied mathematics, guidance and navigation, compressible flow, computational fluid dynamics, spacecraft attitude control, astrodynamics and introductory aerospace engineering. He is the lead author of more than two dozen technical papers, as well as the textbook, "Space Vehicle Design."
A registered professional engineer in Maryland and California, Griffin is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics, an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a fellow of the American Astronautical Society, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the AIAA Space Systems Medal, and the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given to a non-government employee.
Griffin received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University; a master's degree in aerospace science from Catholic University of America; a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland; a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California; a master's degree in applied physics from Johns Hopkins University; a master's degree in business administration from Loyola College; and a master's degree in Civil Engineering from George Washington University. He is a certified flight instructor with instrument and multiengine ratings.
http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/griffin_bio.html
And I bet he was at the grand opening of the Creation Museum, then?
He’s an engineer, not a scientist.
And you call this Solid Logic? This is Solid Logic, only if you are the type person who goes to a Podiatrist to get a tooth pulled.
FYI: a Podiatrist is a foot-doctor.
Physics isn't science?
Crap...my bachelor's and my doctorate are now invalid.
Liberal idiots rarely make sense.
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