Comments on: NASA Chief Sparks Global Warming Fury

Scientists Denounce NASA's Michael Griffin For Saying Earth's Warming May Not Be A Concern

[clestes-2009]

I heard this guy on NPR this morning and he is a Micheal Brown. Given the job for his ties to Bush, qualifications be damned, and doing NOTHING WORTHWHILE.

I'll bet he can hardly tie his shoe laces.

[dan9111]

There is so much lure to be wrong simply because somebody else is more wrong. In the sciences, there is no place for anger or fury in testing theories. Certainly geologists do not slug it out when they disagree about the crystalline structure of minerals. They use the scientific method!

Sadly, global warming has become a religious battle. It is rage-based education. If either side wants to be taken seriously, they should do what Al Gore did -- make a case and present it. Nothing more. The last thing you should do is cram something down another scientists throat, make new laws and regulations, and then say those who disagree aren't pious enough to be right ("put them in jail, *** it").

Weird science is what this battle is. No civility at all on either side.

[abcdgoldfish-2009]

Global Warming is a theory folks, there's just not enough data to determine a long term trend. The general consensus is that an increase in the Earth's temperature will result from the emissions that humans make. All the discussions that are going on are about how to prevent the occurance in the future. The "trends" over the past five to ten years are meaningless in the earth's history. Look at the trends over the past 1,000 - 20,000 years as "short-term trends".

The comments made by a NASA manager obviously are from the viewpoint of one who deals with cosmic time, not the time of our immediate gratification society.

For more information on global warning, please read the fictional book titled "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton (of Jurassic Park fame). It sheds light on one side of the Global Warming controversy. A side I'm inclined to agree with.

[terrapin78]

From above article that Griffin is either....
"totally clueless" or "a deep anti-global warming ideologue."

In the Bu$h administration? Totally clueless or a deep anti-global warming ideologue.

Imagine that!!!

[jimfinster]

He is an ADMINISTRATOR, not a research scientist. He is perhaps not the best person to be making these types of statements...

[grazinggoat]

This clown will be the first one to settle on the moon once the weather starts to be unbearable. The rest of us will stay and fry on earth like hotdogs in the steamers...

[terrapin78]

What does one expect from a Bu$h appointee?

Nuff said!

[terrapin78]

What do one expect from a Bu$h appointee?

Nuff said!