Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; The NASA role of senior climate advisor has been combined with the role of Chief Scientist, with Dr. Katherine Calvin replacing Dr. Gavin Schmidt (former senior climate advisor) and Jim Green (former Chief Scientist), though Schmidt will retain his role as director of NASA GISS.
NASA Announces New Chief Scientist, Senior Climate Advisor
Dr. Katherine Calvin, NASA chief scientist and senior climate advisor.Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that Dr. Katherine Calvin will serve the agency in dual roles as chief scientist and senior climate advisor effective Monday.
Calvin succeeds Jim Green, who retired from his role Jan. 1 as chief scientist after more than 40 years of service at NASA, and Gavin Schmidt, who has served as senior climate advisor in an acting capacity since the position was created in February 2021. NASA established the senior climate advisor position to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden-Harris Administration’s climate science objectives for the agency. Schmidt will maintain his role as director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Kate to the NASA family, where she will bring her expertise in integrated human-Earth system modeling to help ensure the Biden Administration has the data needed to achieve the critical goal of protecting our planet.” Nelson said. “I also want to thank Jim and Gavin for their invaluable leadership to NASA and the world as chief scientist and senior climate advisor.”
As chief scientist and senior climate advisor, Calvin will serve as principal advisor to the administrator and other agency leaders on NASA science programs, strategic planning, and policy. She will also represent the agency’s strategic science objectives and contributions to the national and international science communities.
“Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our nation – and our planet,” Calvin said. “NASA is a world leader in climate and Earth science. I’m excited to be a part of the team that is helping to advance this important science mission.”
Previously, Calvin was an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland. She worked on the institute’s Global Change Analysis Model, a system for exploring and analyzing the relationships between human and Earth systems, and the Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model, a system for analyzing the Earth system.
Calvin holds master’s and doctoral degrees in management, science, and engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland.
In February 2021, NASA joined the National Climate Task Force established by President Biden, which encourages a governmentwide approach to address climate change. NASA has issued a climate action plan aimed at continuing critical Earth science and climate research and averting mission impacts due to climate. With more than two dozen satellites and instruments observing key climate indicators, NASA is the premier agency in observing and understanding changes to Earth.
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I don’t know much about Dr. Katherine Calvin, but her background is climate modelling, and Dr. Gavin Schmidt is still in charge of GISS, so I don’t expect this shuffle of senior NASA people to calm NASA’s ongoing obsession with climate alarmism.
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I think she was appointed so Joe Biden would pay more attention to NASA. They will send her to meetings so Joe can sniff her hair.
I assume Hillary didn’t mind having him standing close behind her the way she minded with Trump during that debate.
Mainstream media has steadfastly refused to report the energy disaster that is ongoing in Britain and Europe.
Because of the utter failure of wind and solar-electricity generation (combined with Europe’s colossal wrong-way bet on natural gas supplies from Gazprom), the prices of electricity and natural gas in Europe are now 7-8× what they are in the U.S.
It is a gigantic clusterf*ck and there is a genuine possibility of large scale cold-related fatalities (and, most assuredly, of energy poverty). There have already been instances of large industry closures due to skyrocketing feedstock prices (see European fertilizer manufacturers for one glaring example).
The failure of U.S. media to report this is mind-boggling. They are deliberately and intentionally failing to inform the public.
It is the height of irresponsibility.
Despite all those degrees, based on this quote she’s clearly just another extensively educated, that is to say deluded, idiot.
Her first job will be to control the platinum standard USCRN system can’t have virtual flatlining from the only fit for purpose surface temp records on the planet. What a headache having unmolested data blowing a hole in the correlation party.
If she is in modelling, doesn’t that say it all?
Her life must be alarmism.
Anybody in climate modeling has to have a firm background in reality to know when their models are off the rails. Otherwise, they put too much stock in the numbers being spit out by the program.
From her biography, as published by Wikipedia, for what it’s worth:
“Calvin was a lead author on the “Mitigation” chapter of the United States’ third National Climate Assessment in 2014. The chapter describes the degree that which reduced global carbon dioxide emissions would alleviate the effects of climate change and concludes that the world’s governments would need to heavily reduce the amount of global carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the century in order limit the global increase in temperature to 3-5 °F (1.6-2.7 °C). The chapter closes by offering potential measures to reduce the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions.
“Calvin has contributed to two IPCC special reports on climate change. In 2018 the IPCC used Calvin’s research on its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. Calvin was a contributing author on chapter two of the report, which offered strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change in order to prevent a global average temperature increase of 1.5 °C. The article cited Calvin’s research on land use and its relationship with socioeconomic and environmental effects.
“Calvin also contributed to the IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land in 2019. This report examines the effect that elevated greenhouse gasses will have on the planet from a perspective of human land usage. Calvin was a coordinating lead author in the report’s sixth chapter, in which her research was used extensively throughout. Chapter six offers pathways of mitigating the harmful effects of global climate change on land use, such as reduced deforestation and agricultural diversification.”
So, it is quite clear that Dr. Calvin is entering her role at NASA as Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor with a heavy bias toward AGW/CAGW.
Does science need to be objective? Apparently, NASA does not believe so.
does anyone here think that if the current group of nasa employees were working on the mercury/gemini appolo program, they could have put a man on the moon?
Possibly, but he would have been all over the moon…
Unfortunately, NASA has, as they say, “lost the recipe” and is unlikely to still have what it takes to manage a program to return humans to the Moon.
Following the final Moon landing and end of the Apollo program in 1975, the first real NASA program to attempt to “return to the Moon” was dubbed Constellation, which started in 2005 (that’s a 30 year gap!) and ran through 2009.
2005 was 17 years ago . . . in comparison, at the direction of President Kennedy, NASA took just a tad more 8 years to successfully go from the Mercury program technology level to the first Moon landing!
Following official termination of Constellation, there were a mishmash of various less-ambition programs until 2017, when President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that specifically targeted a U.S.-led, integrated program with private sector partners for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond.
In May 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the new program would be named Artemis. The initial objective of Artemis was a Moon landing by 2024.
NASA has accomplished little to-date on Artemis . . . and there is no chance in Hades of achieving a Moon landing in CY2024 . . . heck, NASA hasn’t even selected a design approach for the necessary throttling lunar lander engine(s).
At this rate, NASA will be lucky to make their first attempt at a Moon landing by year 2030. And I expect the Chinese will be there before then.
It is easy to forget that Artemis is the sister of Apollo. It was made clear that the goal of the Artemis program is to put a woman on the moon. It is unclear what, if any, scientific goals the program has. The technology will be state-of-the-art, out of necessity because there aren’t any Saturn V rockets left. This is all political theater without the side benefits of finding out if the surface is even safe to land and walk on, or what it is made of. I do hope the militant feminists appreciate how much money is being spent on their agenda.
Not a proverbial snowballs chance.
maybe she can send a rocket to one of the worlds she predicted in her models
“human-Earth system modeling”
googled this and it’s even worse than I imagined
JGCRI even features a tool aptly named HECTOR
parameterized political opinions
no word on the CAJOLE and EXAGGER8 apps
“…averting mission impacts due to climate.”
It was climate change that caused the rocket to blow up.
The climate always impacts missions. You use it to brake re-entry vehicles. How do we avert that? The climate leaks into space and slows down the ISS. Can we avert that?
Anything that includes the phrase “help Biden” has got to be bad, unless we’re talking palliative care.
Climate modelling – so an expert in creating propaganda dressed as science.
She will,give the data to Buck Fiden so that,he can keep the planet safe. Such illusions of grandeur and omnipotence
I suppose it’s too much to hope for that this climate scaredy baby will believe it’s possible for water vapor and liquid oceans to exist on the planet even if CO2 were at zero ppm, something, that Gavin claims to be true without evidence. And btw, which seems like something you could test for in the laboratory and easily disprove.
Then, all NASA related temperature datasets could also be immediately switched over to UAH data.
Australia had a female Chief scientist. She did not last long before resigning. Wonder how long this lady will last.
From her picture she is very smug.
The lunatics really are running the asylum – modelling is great to prove your lies are facts – any computer savvy 12 year old can do that
Is Bill Watterson still around? I think we’re going to see more Calvin Ball in the future.