Climate Dissent Launches at NASA

My article (as titled above) published at here Energy Tribune (US) and here The Commentator (UK). Here's a taster:

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”.

Comments

[Rhys]

'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.'

As far as I can see, only 7 of the 49 were astronauts, Pete. Maybe you should have better perspective when it comes to 'hard data', eh?