OMG!! Non-Scientist Former GOP Congressman/NASA Director Tells His Agency Global Warming Is Real

[hatrack]

It's no secret that the Trump administration has filled cabinet positions and other senior staff jobs with people who reject or ignore established climate science. On Monday, for example, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington that he’s “not going to get into the climate debate.” He also said he could not endorse climate research by one of his own agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose satellites, aircraft flights, and ocean buoys support scientists' consensus that humans are behind rising carbon dioxide levels and the resulting impacts of climate change such as sea level rise and changing weather patterns.

But today, something unusual happened. NASA’s brand new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, laid down a pretty big marker in agreement with established climate science. And if Bridenstine’s position on climate change has shifted toward the scientific mainstream, he may find himself staking out a lonely position among his former Republican colleagues in Congress.

“I don’t deny the consensus, I believe fully in climate change and that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way,” Bridenstine told NASA workers during a televised town hall from headquarters in Washington. He said that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and “we are putting it into the atmosphere in volumes we haven’t seen before. We are responsible for it.”

In contrast, at a climate hearing this week, Republican members of the House Science Committee said that the Earth is not warming (it is), that rocks falling into the ocean are causing sea level rise (they aren’t), and that the Antarctic ice sheet is growing bigger (it’s not).

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https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-jim-bridenstine-agrees-humans-are-responsible-for-climate-change/

[mountain grammy]

1. They can lie, cheat, steal, molest children, etc, etc, etc..

but line up with science and they'll eat you alive. This one will get himself fired... no "evolved" thinking allowed, in fact, the word "evolved" is banned by Mike Pence, right?

[luc mont]

2. Bridenstine

What a perfect name for going rogue on Donny! (Yes, I'm a fan of old horror movies.)

[lambchopp59]

3. Here you go, science deniers, hold this beaker of nitroglycerin for me.

But let me leave the building before you drop it.

[Pepsidog]

4. Good for him. I'm happy to hear this

[hueymahl]

5. Rocks falling into the ocean are causing sea level rise??!?

Is that really a position they have taken? OMFG! That may be the most ignorant, hilariously depressing thing I have heard of next to the flat-earthers.


On Edit: They really said it: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise

[aggiesal]

7. They're morans!!! n/t

[packman]

6. I think the ocean's rising is due to two factors-

(1) People going to the beach. All those bodies - just makes sense the ocean has to rise
(2) Bans on overfishing - Too many fishies in the sea now and , again, the sea has to rise from that overpopulation


I do believe I can now run as a Republican at my local election.