nasa scientist unsure of validity of

NASA scientist "unsure" of validity of global warming

From ABC News:

NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his

agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying

the need to combat global warming.

"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," Griffin

told Inskeep. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a

problem we must wrestle with."

"To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of

Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that

we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to

make sure that it doesn't change," Griffin said. "I guess I would

ask which human beings -- where and when -- are to be accorded the

privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have

right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human

beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to

take."

Griffin's comments -- released in transcript form by NPR --

immediately drew stunned reaction from James Hansen, NASA's top

climate scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New

York.

"It's an incredibly arrogant and ignorant statement," Hansen told

ABC News. "It indicates a complete ignorance of understanding the

implications of climate change."

Interestingly enough, James Hansen was featured heavily in Al Gore's

mockumentary, An Inconvenient Lie, I mean, An Inconvenient Truth.

Mixed interests, much?

This is exactly the way enviro-moonbattery always seems to work.

Global warming should just be accepted as an absolute truth, and any

climatologist or scientist who dares dispute or question that truth is

out of their mind.

Funny thing is, Griffin wasn't even really disputing that there is

some global warming going on -- he just wasn't buying into the

apocalyptic hype that Al Gore, Laurie David, Sheryl Crow, and the rest

of the moonbats are spewing. Temperatures rising one degree will cause

the world to end! Start building dome cities on the moon! We must

abort Earth now! ABORT, ABORT, ABORT!!

He said it perfectly: which human beings are allowed to say what is

causing global warming, and what makes them more authorized to do so?

And how is it that Al Gore is the most knowledgeable person on the

planet when it comes to global warming? He usurped that position at

the forefront of "the fight against global warming!", just like Jesse

Jackson and Al Sharpton appointed themselves leaders of the civil

rights movement.

And funny, again, how questioning the validity of global warming

"draws the ire" of climatologists at NASA. Aren't scientists supposed

to be continually questioning and testing their theories? I didn't

realize that science was so easy to predict, especially climatology.

If that's the case, then why can't the local meteorologist even

predict whether or not it's going to rain this afternoon?? Maybe he