What's the problem?
The top official at Nasa said yesterday that it was "arrogant" and unfair to treat global warming as a problem that needed to be tackled. Dr Michael Griffin told National Public Radio's Morning Edition: "I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. "To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change. advertisement I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take." Jerry Mahlman, a former top scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Dr Griffin's remarks showed he was either "totally clueless" or "a deep anti-global warming ideologue". James Hansen, Nasa's top climate scientist, told ABC News: "It's an incredibly ignorant statement." |
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