At what point did Bob Park go off the deep end?

What's New by Bob Park - Friday, December 5, 2008

1. TRIANA: WHY DOES THIS ADMINISTRATION HATE IT SO MUCH?
Could it be because Al Gore's initials areon it? They changed the name, but the initials wouldn't rub off. Three years ago while Congress was out of town for the Christmas break, I heard NASA was quietly terminating Triana, a.k.a. DSCOVR, http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN06/wn010606 . How could this happen? The $100 million observatory was already built. It was meant to answer the most fundamental question of climate science: what is the energy balance between solar radiation falling on Earth and reflected or reradiated energy? Global warming deniers all claim solar variation is the major factor in global climate change. Is it? Well, Triana is the only experiment that can unequivocally answer that question. But I couldn't find a single global warming denier who wanted it tested. So I wrote an op-ed for the NY Times; but maybe nobody read it, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/opinion/15park.html . It's still timely; the NY Times should feel free to reprint it without change.