--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > High price for load of hot airArticle > > > > > > Submit comment Bob Carter > > > June 18, 2007 12:00am > > > > > > WITH understandable reluctance, Prime Minister John Howard > recently > > > donned the political hair-shirt of a carbon trading system. > > > > > > On the same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a US > radio > > > interview that "I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global > > > warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with". > > > > > > NASA is an agency that knows a thing or two about climate change. > > As > > > Griffin added: "We study global climate change, that is in our > > > authorisation, we think we do it rather well. > > > > > > "I'm proud of that, but NASA is not an agency chartered to, > quote, > > > battle climate change." > > > > > > Such a clear statement that science accomplishment should carry > > > primacy over policy advice is both welcome and overdue. > > > > > > Nonetheless, there is something worrying about one of Griffin's > > other > > > statements, which said that "I have no doubt . . . that a trend > of > > > global warming exists". > > > > Oddly enough, the article doesn't quote this > > part of Griffin's comments: > > > > "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." > > What is your position on global warming NOW, Judy? > > Do you still think it is the man-made catastrophy that Al Gore > et al think it is?
What do you think of Griffin's quote I just posted?
