[FPSPACE] NASA Administrator Griffin's remarks on GlobalWarming are "Arr...

[E.P. Grondine]

David -

I agree with you completely. "Obsessive concern" with manned flight to Mars 
has left NASA weakened, in particular the attack politics used by those 
"obsessively concerned".

EP


>From: DSFPortree at aol.com
>To: MattWriter at aol.com, fpspace at friends-partners.org
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] NASA Administrator Griffin's remarks on 
>GlobalWarming are "Arr...
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:42:36 EDT
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>Griffin's remarks were stupid on many levels. The issue is not whether
>climate now is good or bad; it's about change, the course of which we 
>cannot
>predict.
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>They also show that he is completely misreading public concerns. NASA 
>should
>be at the forefront of the climate change issue because it's one of the 
>things
>that people care about. People don't care about the moon. Obsessive concern
>over things the people who pay the bills don't care about could harm NASA.
>
>David
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