Scientists rally around NASA chief after global warming comments
June 1st, 2007 by Brendan SteinhauserScientists are backing up the NASA chief and his comments about global warming. Thanks to Marc Morano of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for passing this story along.
“NASA’s top administrator, Michael Griffin, speaking on NPR radio made some refreshingly sensible comments about the present global warming scare,” said Robert Ferguson, Director of the Science and Public Policy Institute. “Many rationalist scientists agree with him, clearly demonstrating there is no scientific consensus on man-made, catastrophic global warming,” said Ferguson.
Griffin said he doubted global warming is “a problem we must wrestle with,” and that it is arrogant to believe that today’s climate is the best we could have and that “we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change.”
While NASA scientist, James Hansen, was sharply critical of his boss, other scientists from around the world came to Griffin’s support.
Said Dr. Walter Starck, an Australian marine scientist, “Griffin makes an important distinction between the scientific findings of climate change and dramatic predictions of catastrophic consequences accompanied by policy demands. The former can be evaluated by its evidence, but; the latter rest only on assertions and claims to authority.
