Given the high profile story today about the 49 NASA astronauts, engineers, and scientists who wrote a scathing letter to NASA director Charles Bolden, Jr. saying Jim Hansen and NASA GISS are exemplifying the “wrong stuff”, I thought I’d share this poster contributed by WUWT reader NickFromNYC:
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and not a “climate scientist” in the bunch…
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The meme response to 4.6 BY of fluctuation: “But since 1960, it has been caused by man”. Nice of the planet to step aside and allow the puny fleas on her back to determine the thermal behaviour of the globe. How to gleick a planet. Arrogance to think that Man is that important in Earth History (think again), and the hubris of an elitist few to think that they alone hold the key to our salvation.
Let’s hope that GISS sheds a couple of fleas.
So, four brilliant, accomplished scientists/astronauts contradicting the likes of Hansen, Schmidt, Mann, and Gleick (or take Trenberth if you think Gleick has fallen off the rolls).
I’m sure we’ll see some real cry-baby tantrums and tweets in response to this–maybe the watermelons will try to pressure these astronauts into changing their minds. Or maybe the watermelons and theyr lackeys will finally admit their political “solutions” were never about the climate to begin with.
If nothing else, it should provide abundant (and likely entertaining) feed for WUWT in the near future.
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No Blue and red tights with cape on these REAL HEROES
I like the poster. I still have my old Topps “Man on the Moon” trading cards someplace.
Luther Wu says:
April 10, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Of course. Would you send a “climate scientist” into orbit? They might come back with the perspective that man truly is an insignificant player in Earth’s grand panoply.
Luther Wu
You don’t have to be a “climate scientists” to understand that “climate science” has been hijacked and that the normal use of the the scientific method and the peer review process have been perverted in that process, both in order to serve the CAGW/CACC message and meme. A degree in the sciences or engineering is all that is required to understand what happened.
from the statement.
“We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled”.
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Excellent.
hmmmm…..nope, wasn’t on TV news…however, if some Hollywood Celebrity had said something, top news!!!
Luther Wu says:
“and not a ‘climate scientist’ in the bunch…”
Luther, I’ll take the opinions of this group of distinguished scientists, engineers and astronauts (some of those guys are all three) over the opinions of an astronomer (Hansen) a political science major (Gore) or a railroad engineer (Pachauri) any day of the week.
Those who signed that letter include many people who played major roles in putting a man on the moon less than ten years after Kennedy set the goal in 1961. What have people like Mann, Trenberth, Jones, Gleick and Schmidt done that remotely compares to the scientific achievements of this group?
If anyone still needs proof that Al Gore is a complete and utter d[*****]bag, that quote should be all you need….
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RockyRoad says:
April 10, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Buzz Aldrin is a Phi Beta Kappa.
Drinking glasses, commemorating the achievement; well most of them (they used to be part of a set … before I realized they would/could be worth something some day) …
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VERY cool. Can we have a higher resolution PDF of that?
We have Buzz, Walter, Harrison and Phillip . Let me remind you of who they have , James. http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/james-hansen-arrested.jpg
Luthur Wu
The 49 NASA luminaries that signed the letter are no doubt far more intellectually capable than you or I. They are scientists and engineers without peer that actually did something useful for humanity.
You and your fellow disciples are blind to the fact that intelligent, reasoning and trained scientists and engineers are NOT in agreement with the AGW bible.
Ignorance is bliss I guess.
Gosh, whose word would you take? These guys or a guy who never graduated from anything in Australia like Barrie Harrop. Yeah, me too. My wife works in the McNair Bldg. at MIT for as long as her PI’s funding holds out. Brave guy killed by morons at Nasa.
FYI…
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The character on the preceding line is what is known as a “sarc tag”, indicating sarcasm.
That is all.
Luther Wu says: “and not a ‘climate scientist’ in the bunch…”
Hanson is not a climate scientist. He’s an astronomer.
Crikey! An Australian!
Sadly, down here our government would take a mammalogists (who has been a spectacular failure in terms of climatic projections) word over a physicist from MIT.
One minor nit pick on the poster, Burt Rutan is not the first private astronaut!
He was the designer of the first private space ship (winner of the Ansari X Prize), and the first plane to circumnavigate the planet without refueling.
Mike Melvill (Burt’s pilot for Space ship One) deserves the title of first private astronaut as the pilot of the first of 2 flights required to win that prize.
Other than that minor quibble, great poster.
I suspect you could add about 20 other faces with similar qualifications to that poster.
Larry
Steely-eyed Misslemen 49 Hansen 0
‘You’re only a crackpot until you hit the jackpot.’
– Werner Von Braun.
‘Gwan geeza kappay kaffay Jammay.’ (Go and get me a cup of coffee, James.)
– Dick Emery.
Well, they would say that wouldn’t they. They’re retired. Did very nicely going to the moon didn’t they. What about us A? Where are we gonig to get all that lovely jubbley lucra from eh? Where did all the moon’s water and atmosphere go A: Global Warming darlings!!!
Sarc off/