If NASA has no official position on climate change, as claimed to Andy Revkin by as-usual clueless Gavin Schmidt, what is this? “NASA Policy Statement - Adapting to a Changing Climate” (May 2011)
There are two points about it:
(1) I won’t hold my breath waiting for some of the involved folks to wake up to the idea that if they write something as “NASA Head of this” or “NASA Head of that”, then ipso facto their statements will be taken as “Official NASA Position” on this or that.
In the private sector, anything one writes in the course of business is of course considered what his/her company thinks about that course of business. How can it be any different?
(2) NASA doesn’t live in a vacuum. It can’t play the Ivory Tower Scientist today, and the Federal Agency tomorrow. If the Government pursues one particular line of thought (eg for worry of dangerous climate change), then NASA of course is pursuing that same line of thought.
Therefore…NASA has a very big OFFICIAL POSITION on climate change indeed.
Probably every federal agency now has a “policy on climate change adaptation (and sustainability) within” existing agency Procedural Directive #XXXXX on Environmental Management that will “be signed by the Agency Administrator and aligned with the Agency’s governance structure” – in order to stay in the stream of federal funds supplied by mentally-ill world leaders who have lost contact with Reality..
Hansen earns NASA 1.2 bn a year. NASA needs to be warmist alarmist if they want this money. Hansen is a protected species.
http://notrickszone.com/2012/04/12/nasa-abdalatis-response-to-50-esteemed-professionals-is-managerial-negligence-an-embarrassment/#comment-92515
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/FY12-climate-fs.pdf