Climate Change

Climate dissent launches at NASA
Respected astronaut, Walt Cunningham said, 'NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over anthropogenic global warming.' So why isn't it?
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1090/climate_dissent_launches_at_nasa

That’s the thing about flying to the moon. It gives you an untrammelled perspective and respect for the real world, facts and hard data. In a blast worthy of a rocket launch, 49 former NASA scientists, astronauts and engineers have finally had enough of NASA’s climate advocacy role. Going public with a letter to Chief NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the group pull no punches in asserting the lack of empirical evidence in support of the agency’s “extreme position” as a bastion of climate change alarmism.

The letter’s co-signatories “respectfully request” that both NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) – the latter run by the high priest of climate alarmism James Hansen – refrain from making “unproven remarks in public releases and websites”.

Claims that man-made CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are “not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data.” And, alluding indirectly to the high-profile headline grabbing alarmism of James Hansen and his GISS team, the letter emphatically states “the science is NOT settled”.

The eminent group of co-signatories, including respected astronaut Walter Cunningham, flight designer Michael Collins and chief flights dynamics division engineer for 40 years, Dr Kenneth Cox, and a host of senior former eminent NASA ‘glitterati’, have clearly lost patience. They plainly want to bring NASA’s end-is-nigh speculative science back down to earth. The letter cites the “unbridled advocacy of CO2” as the major cause of climate change as nothing less than “unbecoming to NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data”.


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Climate dissent launches at NASA
Respected astronaut, Walt Cunningham said, 'NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over anthropogenic global warming.' So why isn't it?
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1090/climate_dissent_launches_at_nasa

That’s the thing about flying to the moon. It gives you an untrammelled perspective and respect for the real world, facts and hard data. In a blast worthy of a rocket launch, 49 former NASA scientists, astronauts and engineers have finally had enough of NASA’s climate advocacy role. Going public with a letter to Chief NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the group pull no punches in asserting the lack of empirical evidence in support of the agency’s “extreme position” as a bastion of climate change alarmism.

The letter’s co-signatories “respectfully request” that both NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) – the latter run by the high priest of climate alarmism James Hansen – refrain from making “unproven remarks in public releases and websites”.

Claims that man-made CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are “not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data.” And, alluding indirectly to the high-profile headline grabbing alarmism of James Hansen and his GISS team, the letter emphatically states “the science is NOT settled”.

The eminent group of co-signatories, including respected astronaut Walter Cunningham, flight designer Michael Collins and chief flights dynamics division engineer for 40 years, Dr Kenneth Cox, and a host of senior former eminent NASA ‘glitterati’, have clearly lost patience. They plainly want to bring NASA’s end-is-nigh speculative science back down to earth. The letter cites the “unbridled advocacy of CO2” as the major cause of climate change as nothing less than “unbecoming to NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data”.


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Absurd.
 
So what? There are a few nutjob ignorant righties everywhere. The important thing is that the experts agree that AGW is a fact.

In 2015 - there will be a turning point - it is the year when under 50% of scientists support AGW. The percentage in 2014 was a mere 53% in surveys and it drops every year as more data comes out.
 
NOAA Report Destroys Global Warming Link To Extreme Weather
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesta...troys-global-warming-link-to-extreme-weather/

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have demolished claims by global warming activists that global warming caused or worsened many extreme weather events last year.

According to NOAA’s new publication, Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, there is no discernible connection between global warming and 2013 extreme weather events such as the California drought, Colorado floods, the UK’s exceptionally cold spring, a South Dakota blizzard, Central Europe floods, a northwestern Europe cyclone, and exceptional snowfall in Europe’s Pyrenees Mountains.

The California drought provides a good example of global warming activists making false and irresponsible claims regarding global warming to deliberately mislead people who aren’t familiar with scientific studies and evidence. The liberal Center for American Progress and its media allies such as the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Associated Press, and others have all published stories claiming global warming caused or worsened the ongoing California drought. Scientists, however, say just the opposite. “[F]or the California drought, which was investigated by three teams from the United States, human factors were found not to have influenced the lack of rainfall,” NOAA reported in an accompanying press release.


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NOAA Report Destroys Global Warming Link To Extreme Weather
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesta...troys-global-warming-link-to-extreme-weather/

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have demolished claims by global warming activists that global warming caused or worsened many extreme weather events last year.

According to NOAA’s new publication, Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, there is no discernible connection between global warming and 2013 extreme weather events such as the California drought, Colorado floods, the UK’s exceptionally cold spring, a South Dakota blizzard, Central Europe floods, a northwestern Europe cyclone, and exceptional snowfall in Europe’s Pyrenees Mountains.

The California drought provides a good example of global warming activists making false and irresponsible claims regarding global warming to deliberately mislead people who aren’t familiar with scientific studies and evidence. The liberal Center for American Progress and its media allies such as the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Associated Press, and others have all published stories claiming global warming caused or worsened the ongoing California drought. Scientists, however, say just the opposite. “[F]or the California drought, which was investigated by three teams from the United States, human factors were found not to have influenced the lack of rainfall,” NOAA reported in an accompanying press release.


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Absurd.
 
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