NASA Head Regrets "That I Caused This Amount Of Controversy Over Something Like This" - NYT

[hatrack]

OS ANGELES (AP) -- The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.

NASA administrator Michael Griffin said in the closed-door meeting Monday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that ''unfortunately, this is an issue which has become far more political than technical and it would have been well for me to have stayed out of it.'' ''All I can really do is apologize to all you guys ... I feel badly that I caused this amount of controversy over something like this,'' he said.

Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public Radio interviewer he wasn't sure global warming was a problem. ''I have no doubt that ... a trend of global warming exists,'' Griffin said on NPR. ''I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.''

The radio interview angered some climate scientists, who called his remarks ignorant.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-NASA-Climate-Change.html

[aquart]

1. Bush appointee?

Anyone gonna ask him about evolution?

[Captain_Nemo]

2. Griffin needs to be removed. I called Senator Boxer's office today.

He was nominated by Bush in 05 and approved by the Senate. (This, of course, was before the midterms.)
Griffin is clearly working against the people of the USA. We ned to have the Senate recall him. If that is the process. Anyone know the process that we use to get this bozo out of NASA?

[Webster Green]

3. "issue which has become far more political than technical"..

Yeah....because of chimp-licking dip-shits like you, mutherfucker!

Time to resign in disgrace!