NASA Global Warming Stance Blasted By 49 Astronauts, Scientists Who Once Worked At Agency
11/04/2012 18:07 BST | Updated 12/04/2012 17:04 BST
David Freeman
The Huffington Post
Is NASA playing fast and loose with climate change science? That's the contention of a group of 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts.
On March 28 the group sent a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr., blasting the agency for making unwarranted claims about the role of carbon dioxide in global warming, Business Insider reported.
"We believe the claims by NASA and GISS [NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies], that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data," the group wrote. "With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nasa-global-warming-letter-astronauts_n_1418017
