A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years.
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues global warming could be catastrophic, said NASA staffers denied his request to do a National Public Radio interview because they didn't want his message to get out.
But Republicans told him the hundreds of other interviews he did belie his broad claim he was being silenced.
"We have over 1,400 opportunities that you've availed yourself to, and yet you call it, you know, being stifled," said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070320-120435-3136r.htm
2007-03-20 05:32:08 · 13 answers · asked by George D 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Why aren't liberals answering the question? Spin and buffoonary is all I am getting.
2007-03-20 05:43:46 · update #1
There is simply no-proof of global warming. The earth cycles from hot to cold climate changes of every 20 years or so. I wonder, who funds the supposed scientist of pro-global warming? Ding, Al Gore and the left.
2007-03-20 05:44:22 · answer #1 · answered by InTheWright 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No offense intended, but maybe you should read news stories closer and more critically.
Nowhere in the story does it state that the 1400 interviews were regarding global warming. The director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies can be called upon for a lot more than one topic. Also, Hansen is saying that global warming could be catastrophic, which is not confirming or denying global warming.
2007-03-20 05:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by hgherron2 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Reading the popular media can lead a person to conclude that "global warming" is:
o- either a hoax to promote business opportunities, politicians agenda and scientists grant money.....
OR
o- a problem related to overpopulation, industrialization and fossil fuels whose solution options lie in solar power, wind power, geothermal power and nuclear fusion....
However, the correct answer may be altogether different:
NASA has released never-before-seen images that show the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images. Hinode was launched Sept. 23 to study the sun's magnetic field and its explosive energy. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said the spacecraft's uninterrupted high-resolution observations of the sun are expected to have an impact on solar physics comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy. "For the first time, we are now able to make out tiny granules of hot gas that rise and fall in the sun's magnetized atmosphere," said Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophyics Division. "These images will open a new era of study on some of the sun's processes that effect Earth, astronauts, orbiting satellites and the solar system." Hinode is a collaborative mission led by
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and includes the European Space Agency and Britain's Particle Physics Astronomy Research
Council. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., managed the development of the Hinode's scientific instrumentation provided by industry and federal agencies.
>>> as regards alternative energy methods, I favor development of the technology for nuclear fusion using lunar Helium 3
2007-03-22 07:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I will simply repeat my reply right here. No, there are a couple of rough middle serial anti-technological know-how alarmists claiming that accepting that technological know-how is corresponding to totalitarianism and evil. However they have got the equal correct to loose speech as scientist and I might no longer have it another means.
2016-09-05 09:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you'd want to go to Mars...I understand IT has a global warming problem too. Better tell the Martians to knock it off with the hair spray, huh?
On the flip side of this, you have people like Heidi Cullen who want meteorologists who are global-warming skeptics to be stripped of their AMS certification.
Man-made global warming is a MYTH. This planet goes through cycles. Thirty years ago they were screaming about another Ice Age. Now it's global warming.
Which is it?
2007-03-20 05:44:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Pro-global warming??? I doubt that scientists are pro-global warming!!! hahaha
They conduct research that is not paid for by big oil companies to seek out the truth. Big oil companies are the ones trying to create doubt so they can continue making $$$$.
2007-03-20 05:41:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Pro global warming? That must be the the people who deny that it exists and therefore wish it to continue. They lie of course to continue making money at the expense of our planet. Denying sound science for profit.
2007-03-20 05:39:46 · answer #7 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Remember... a scientific study is only as non-biased as the money that pays for it!!!
Republicans don't want to believe that global warming is real because they would have to spend money making their factory emissions cleaner and fewer people would buy SUVs. Duh.
2007-03-20 05:47:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are a bunch of "chicken little's" crying that the sky is falling.
2007-03-24 00:31:17 · answer #9 · answered by edward m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay...there is one person...where are the others?
BTW, Republicans offered ten thousand dollars for any study that disputed global wamring......that is pathetic.
2007-03-20 05:37:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋