{"id":5913,"date":"2024-05-27T02:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2024-05-27T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:32:16","slug":"nasa-global-warming-stance-blasted-by-49-astronauts-scientists-who-once-worked-at-agency-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"NASA Global Warming Stance Blasted By 49 Astronauts, Scientists Who Once Worked At Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/entry\/nasa-global-warming-letter-astronauts_n_1418017?ri18n=true<\/a><\/p>\n

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Is NASA playing fast and loose with climate change science? That\u2019s the contention of a group of 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On March 28 the group sent a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr., blasting the agency for making\u00a0unwarranted claims about the role of carbon dioxide in global warming<\/a>, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe 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,\u201d the group wrote. \u201cWith 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The group features some marquee names, including Michael F. Collins, Walter Cunningham and five other Apollo astronauts, as well as two former directors of NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The letter included a request for NASA to refrain from mentioning CO2 as a cause of global warming in future press releases and websites. The agency\u2019s \u201cGlobal Climate Change\u201d webpage says that \u201cHumans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began. This is the\u00a0most important long-lived \u201cforcing\u201d of climate change<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, NASA isn\u2019t the only government agency to finger carbon dioxide as a key culprit in global warming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The EPA website says that \u201cIncreasing levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0in the atmosphere since pre-industrial times are well-documented and understood.\u201d It goes on to say that \u201cThe atmospheric buildup of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is largely the result of human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/entry\/nasa-global-warming-letter-astronauts_n_1418017?ri18n=true Is NASA playing fast and loose with climate change science? That\u2019s the contention of a group of 49 former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[700,127,27,1045,1360,502,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}