Memo
To: PEBO
From: Andrew Dessler
Re: What to do about NASA on your first day in office
Two things:
- Fire Michael Griffin, NASA’s current administrator. He says stupid things about climate change and is going to be an impediment to the change that NASA needs.
- Put the Earth back in NASA’s mandate. In 2006, the Bush Administration quietly deleted the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” from the NASA mission statement. This move perfectly encapsulated Bush’s attitude toward the environment, and with a stroke of your pen you can show how things have changed.
Obama administration officials grateful for early spring
Comments
View as Flat
JMG Posted 7:02 pm
27 Dec 2008
3. DSCOVR: INFORMATION EMBARGO BREAKS DOWN.
An extensive study relating the information that could be obtained from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) to that from the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has just found its way into the sunshine. This hugely-important study not only confirms the Earth-observation potential of the Lagrange-1 vantage point, it's the first crack in the wall of secrecy that has kept the DSCOVR scandal hidden from the public. Eight years of critical data on global warming has already been lost while DSCOVR languishes in a Greenbelt, Md dungeon. Its sin was a thing with Al Gore. Another unreleased study finds the cost to launch DSCOVR, already built and paid for, would be a small fraction of NASA estimates.
http://is.gd/dObf
1. POLITICAL RETRIBUTION: DEEP SPACE CLIMATE OBSERVATORY KILLED.
Triana was never able to overcome its roots. NASA has quietly terminated what may have been its most important science mission. Critics of programs to limit emissions argue that climate change is caused by solar variation, not by atmospheric changes. There is one unambiguous way to tell: locate an observatory at L-1, the neutral-gravity point between Earth and Sun. It would have a continuous view of the sunlit face of Earth in one direction, and the Sun in the other, thus constantly monitoring Earth's albedo. Al Gore initiated the observatory project in 1998 to inspire school children with a continuous view of climate unfolding on our fragile planet. It was even given a poetic name, Triana, the sailor on the Santa Maria who was first to sight the New World (WN 24 Jul 98) . But Triana's importance to climate research, perhaps Earths biggest challenge, was not recognized until later. With urging from the National Academy, it was finished in 2001 and given a new name. It was still waiting to be launched when Columbia crashed. By then we had a new President and a new "vision." It was put on hold. The official reason for killing it is "competing priorities." The priority is to replace Gore's vision of the world with the Bush vision of sending people back to the moon. We should all weep. http://is.gd/dOcx
The 5% Project
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
Permalink
GreyFlcn Posted 12:09 am
28 Dec 2008
_
You'd think the existing level of evidence would be enough, but something like this would remove all doubt.
And that remaining doubt is the main reason we haven't gotten our collective asses into high gear yet.
-David Ahlport
Permalink
GreyFlcn Posted 12:45 am
28 Dec 2008
Hydrogen
Coal Sequestration
BioFuels
Natural Gas from Shale Formations
Also need to put some more focus on:
Insulation / Conservation
Deforestation (Especially Tropical)
Utility Decoupling
Grid Infrastructure
-David Ahlport
Permalink
biodiversivist Posted 1:23 am
28 Dec 2008
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
Permalink
Delay And Deny Posted 3:03 am
29 Dec 2008
Whether another theory is falsified, doesn't therefore prove AGW.
You understand that right?
An honest man is always in trouble. --Henry Fool
Permalink