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NASA Chief at Odds with Agency’s Science

-- Megan -- 05/31/2007

In the May 2007 issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, researchers with NASA and Columbia University's Earth Institute released findings warning that unless action is taken quickly on global warming, the earth could soon experience "strong amplifying feedbacks" that will lead to "dangerous tipping points." And yet yesterday, in an interview with NPR, NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin wondered whether global warming is an issue we should tackle at all.

Griffin stated, "I have no doubt that … a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

Even more disquieting was Griffin's following statement: "I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change." Griffin went on to criticize those who think that a warmer climate will be detrimental to our planet's environmental wellbeing as assuming an "arrogant position." 

One must assume, in turn, that we cannot look to NASA for leadership on the most important atmospheric crisis of human history.  Griffin concluded:  "Nowhere in NASA's authorization, which of course governs what we do, is there anything at all telling us that we should take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another."

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by Andrew Snow

by Andrew Snow