Comments on: NASA admits Deutsch muzzled scientist

By: Nathan Brown

Nathan Brown — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:34:08 +0000

It is not wonder the public is confused about global warming when the press is denied access to good scientists!

We certainly can’t wait for the press or the government to act, but with the internet and the rise of movies like Gore’s, the time seems ripe for a change!

Nathan Brown
Learn how to prevent global
warming before it is too late.

By: Papandos

Papandos — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:08:49 +0000

WASHINGTON â€” Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said he was informed that the inspectors general for the Commerce Department and NASA had begun “coordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration’s censorship and suppression” of federal research into global warming.

“These investigations are critical because the Republicans in Congress have ignored this serious problem,” Lautenberg said.

By: CelticBear’s Musings » Blog Archive » Is the government trying to kill us?

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:42:04 +0000

[...] Since this wasnâ€™t really my field, I didnâ€™t respond to the email. Obviously, Iâ€™ve changed my mind. With what went down at NASA over the George Deutsch affair, and with everything else weâ€™re seeing from this antiscience government, Iâ€™m realizing that any scientific suppression is fair game for me to air out here. [...]

By: CelticBear’s Musings » Blog Archive » Grand Ole Party: The American Taliban

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:58:02 +0000

[...] The neo-con controlled Republican Party wants to destroy the government, pure and simple. No exageration. They have utter hostility toward government and so continue to allow incompetance, privatize portions that should not be privatized, assign people to positions who have no ability or have hatred for the subject they’re heading (see Bad Astonomy entries on appointee Deutsch and NASA, as well as the resumes of FEMA managers Brown and Albaugh, and Homeland Security Chertoff, just to name a few inappropriate appointees.) bush sets up rediculous programs like “No Child Left Behind” and then unfunds it as a way to show public school doesn’t work in order to dismantle it, tells NASA to get to Mars and then not only unfunds it but cuts NASA’s funding. Even though the Defense Department spends in one week the entire annual budget for NASA. Literally. As a progressive libertarian I realize there are some things we NEED government for, and a LOT of things we do not need government involved in. But there’s a difference between small government run well and small government run incompetantly and corruptly and illegally. And this administration, the neo-cons in Congress, prove time and time again that they see government as a way to give power to the rich, create a greater gulf between the haves and have-nots in their creation of an oligarchy, eliminate the middle-class, get rid of science and knowledge and critical thinking so as to better manipulate the masses. [...]

By: Max Fagin

Max Fagin — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:48:32 +0000

This might come as a surprise to many of you, but we really donâ€™t know if the melting Ð¾f glaciers is a global trend.
At the last count, there were over 150,000 glaciers in the world, and fewer than 80 have been studied in any level of detail. The science has found that not all of these 80 glaciers are melting, some are, some arenâ€™t.
People talk about global warming as if itâ€™s a fact, but global warming is not understood as well as Al Gore would like you to believe. Global warming at the moment doesnâ€™t even constitute a theory, in the scientific context. At the moment it should be correctly labeled a hypothesis. For Global warming to be promoted to theory, it must be able to make testable predictions. So far, most major predictions made by global warming advocates, including Dr. Hansen, have not hit their mark. In the near future, I believe climate science will reach a point where it can make correct predictions about global warming. But not yet.
For the time being, Global warming is a hypothesis, and it seems like a mistake to base our environmental policy on a hypothesis.

P.S. (I agree with Harrison, â€œAn Inconvenient Truthâ€ was comedic.)

By: JL

JL — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:56:38 +0000

One last tidbit for anyone interested to read:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm

By: Panops

Panops — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:25:13 +0000

One small correction:
“A letter from Brian Chase, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Legal Affairs at NASA sent a letter to Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) briefly outlining the finding.”

Should be “Assistant Administrator for the Office of Public Affairs” – not Legal Affairs.