The golden quote of the year. Can’t be stated often enough.
right2bright on June 6, 2007 at 2:52 PM

Excellent quote, I’ll have to remember that one.

Who ya gonna believe? The head of NASA or a hack politician who barely squeaked through college with a Gentleman’s C?

Tantor on June 6, 2007 at 6:04 PM

You left out that Algore was a divinity school dropout. That has to count for something.

As I understand it, the climatologists arent sure how much globalony warming is natural; how then can they even begin to guestimate how much is man made?!?!

mrfixit on June 6, 2007 at 12:37 PM

Good point! And also notice that no matter what the claim… whether the globe is getting hotter or the globe is getting cooler or the climate is simply “changing” the culprit is ALWAY carbon dioxide.

This carbon dioxide is some very amazing stuff, it is far less than one percent of the atmosphere and “man-made” carbon dioxide is less than one percent of, that one percent. Yet that .0001 of the atmosphere can cause dramatic heating or cooling or just this terrible “climate change” as Al Gore is constantly claiming.

So why is it always…. always….. always the fault of carbon dioxide? Especially when any climate expert or novice would tell you that it is a minor gas and insignificant compared to water vapor for any type of atmospheric warming?

Well, a reporter once ask Willy Horton why he robbed banks…. and he said “Because that’s where the money is.”

And indeed carbon dioxide is “where the money is” because no business can exist without producing some carbon dioxide. Of course carbon dioxide is what everybody exhales and is actually beneficial to the planet because that is what plant life needs in order to “breath.”

But carbon dioxide MUST be made the culprit because it is the unavoidable byproduct of burning any type of fuel (except hydrogen). If they want the money and the control over business and people, and they do …. then the culprit MUST be carbon dioxide. Nothing else will do.

Commonality, between NOAA and NASA, they both compete for tax dollars.
Making GW a hysterical public scare, drives politicization of the subject and knee-jerk reactions. Hanson has figured that out.

Kini on June 6, 2007 at 2:34 PM

I disagree Kini, I think Hanson is a “bought and paid for” global warming avocate just like Al Gore.

It’s not like he’s a rocket scientist or something.

What? Oh? Oops.

Well … it’s not like he’s Al Gore or Rosie O’Donnell or something. I mean, those are the experts. They’re on TV and everything.

taznar on June 6, 2007 at 12:44 PM

And asking for others to be silenced.

Dramatic predictions of imminent disaster have a near perfect record of failure

The golden quote of the year. Can’t be stated often enough.

Heretic!

JayHaw Phrenzie on June 6, 2007 at 12:03 PM

Pope Gore must’ve threatened excommunication!

Some silence.

Yet, it is Gore stating that the media should not air any opinions counter to his own….

He stated the fact that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the conclusion that global warming is a crisis that needs an immediate solution. If the politicians, journalists and (some) other scientists don’t like that, that’s just too bad.

taznar on June 6, 2007 at 12:33 PM

Well put taznar – the above quote is the bottom line to the whole controversy. These clowns have spent billions of dollars of our money to try and prove a theory that they have invented. If what they say is true (the final consensus) then all money for climate change study should ne stopped immediately.

If I was the director of NASA I would demand that he cease and desist or be fired!

They tried that once before -Google “nasa scientist gagged” and you’ll see Hansen’s name all over the place. For someone being silenced by the Bush adminsistration, he sure has an annoying habit of continuously showing up in the MSM.

I understand the need to keep the science and politics separate for the most part, but there comes a time when the scientist do need to step forward. Politicians and journalists declared a concensus and sold it to the public based on a very small number of vocal scientists (Hansen being one).

Griffin should not apologize for speaking the scientific “truth to power”. He stated the fact that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the conclusion that global warming is a crisis that needs an immediate solution. If the politicians, journalists and (some) other scientists don’t like that, that’s just too bad. Come back when you have actual evidence to back your hypothesis. A major part of being a scientist is recognizing when the data does not support/prove the conclusion (as opposed to simply being consistent with the conclusion) and point that out.

Its good to see that more and more scientists in the relavent fields are finally coming forward to correct the public’s misperception.

Big difference.

FWIW, I loved the clarity of his original comments.

He has since expressed regret, not for saying what he believes, but for wading into a political debate.

Okay – So Griffin has to express regrets for “wading into a political debate”.

Doesn’t this mean that Hansen should do the same thing and immediately cease spreading his global warming crap to the public? If I was the director of NASA I would demand that he cease and desist or be fired!