Another NASA Defection to the Skeptics’ Camp « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Something about retirement apparently frees people up to say what they really believe. I retired early from NASA over seven years ago to have more freedom to speak my mind on global warming.

You might recall that after Dr. Joanne Simpson retired from NASA she (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/3rd_trmm_conf/simpson.doc) admitted to a long-held skepticism regarding the role of mankind in global warming.

And who can forget NASA’s Administrator, Michael Griffin, admitting that he was skeptical of the urgency of the global warming problem? After the outrage that ensued, I suspect he wishes he had never brought it up.

And now my old boss when I was at NASA (as well as James Hansen’s old boss), John Theon, has stated very clearly that he doesn’t believe global warming is manmade…and adding “climate models are useless” for good measure. Even I wouldn’t go quite that far, since I use simple ones in my published research.

I remember the old days at NASA, when even John Theon was singing the same tune as most people at NASA were. Manmade global warming was a potentially serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Australian Climate Madness: Loony alarmism from Brisbane Times

Not surprising, given the writer is David Spratt, author of the über-alarmist publication "Climate Code Red" (with an accompanying website here), but as always, the Fairfax press will just parrot all of it without any thought...

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Breaking: House passes Obama’s (green) stimulus package with nary a GOP vote

If the House R’s won’t vote for the only stimulus on the table during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it’s hard to see how they are going to vote for a serious bill addressing the climate problem, whose existence they don’t even acknowledge and opposition to which they see as a political winner...

Richard Littlemore | [Alleged] Anti-Gore Hate Mail Campaign [Allegedly] Too Obvious to Be Believed

If you're looking for evidence of the gathering campaign to game the public conversation about climate change, check out this CNN post of Al Gore's presentation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Scroll to the bottom of the story and you will see that in less than two hours from the time of posting, the story attracted more than 150 comments, nearly all of them hysterical, bitchy, vitriolic sneers or classic denier talking points.