Resignation of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a great record of impressive technical successes and important scientific contributions.
It also bears particular responsibilities as world's largest civilian space agency and a significant consumer of both funding and tangible resources.
NASA must be led with scientific integrity and intelligence.
National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S. reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has said, on the record in an NPR interview aired Thursday, May 31, 2007, that while he accepts that the climate of Earth is in fact warming, he disputes the idea that this global warming is necessarily a bad thing.
In the NPR interview, Griffin says it is arrogant for any particular humans to determine for other humans that the current climate is superior to some subsequent climate which might be much warmer.
To frame the climate crisis as Griffin does, as an issue of choice among humans and no more, displays a titanic extreme of arrogance.
For the head of a globally-significant scientific agency to display such devastating ignorance - or such overwhelming politicization - on the outstanding scientific issue of our generation is simply unacceptable.
This is not just a matter of misspeaking in casual remarks, or of poor judgement by a high official. As previously reported, under Michael Griffin (and the Bush administration), NASA has deliberately lowered the priority of crucial earth monitoring satellite missions, in favor of pork-barrel show-treks off-planet.
As the world's pre-eminent scientific satellite operator, NASA has a vital role to play in the global monitoring, analysis, and response to the climate crisis. While personed space exploration may be an inspiring technical challenge and an exciting human prospect, in this time of documented global crisis, the needs of planet Earth itself must be our highest priority.
We join our names together to petition for the immediate resignation of Michael Griffin from the position of NASA Administrator, and in calling for a prompt redirection of NASA priorities toward the vital space-science needs of a planet spinning into unprecedented crisis.
It also bears particular responsibilities as world's largest civilian space agency and a significant consumer of both funding and tangible resources.
NASA must be led with scientific integrity and intelligence.
National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S. reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has said, on the record in an NPR interview aired Thursday, May 31, 2007, that while he accepts that the climate of Earth is in fact warming, he disputes the idea that this global warming is necessarily a bad thing.
In the NPR interview, Griffin says it is arrogant for any particular humans to determine for other humans that the current climate is superior to some subsequent climate which might be much warmer.
To frame the climate crisis as Griffin does, as an issue of choice among humans and no more, displays a titanic extreme of arrogance.
For the head of a globally-significant scientific agency to display such devastating ignorance - or such overwhelming politicization - on the outstanding scientific issue of our generation is simply unacceptable.
This is not just a matter of misspeaking in casual remarks, or of poor judgement by a high official. As previously reported, under Michael Griffin (and the Bush administration), NASA has deliberately lowered the priority of crucial earth monitoring satellite missions, in favor of pork-barrel show-treks off-planet.
As the world's pre-eminent scientific satellite operator, NASA has a vital role to play in the global monitoring, analysis, and response to the climate crisis. While personed space exploration may be an inspiring technical challenge and an exciting human prospect, in this time of documented global crisis, the needs of planet Earth itself must be our highest priority.
We join our names together to petition for the immediate resignation of Michael Griffin from the position of NASA Administrator, and in calling for a prompt redirection of NASA priorities toward the vital space-science needs of a planet spinning into unprecedented crisis.
218 Signatures
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WILLIAM S
- City, State, Country
- CHANTILLY, VA, USA
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unknown
- City, State, Country
- charlotte nc usa
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- nobody is petitioning for others that are on verge of losing jobs so why should you be different? since you have so many degrees it should be easy for you to find another job! others arent so fortunate so deal with it!
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Thomas M. D
- City, State, Country
- Granbury, TX
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- He needs to go.
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Leonard V
- City, State, Country
- Norman, OK, USA
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Melinda E
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Anonymous
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- Another good petition worth signing here -- http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/RemoveMikeGriffinNow/index.html
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Zareh G
- City, State, Country
- Glendale, CA. U.S.A.
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Not Happy With M
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Rich
- City, State, Country
- Texas
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- How many degrees does a Rocket Scientist need to keep his job? Hopefully seven is enough.
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Thomas Lee E
- City, State, Country
- Madison, Wisconsin USA
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- Michael Griffin is an incompentant engineer with clear ties to ATK through his astronaut friend 'DOC' and the two of them got together and just decided a priori what the launch vehicle architecture was going to look like, and from then on it's been 'my way or the highway'. Like his boss George W. Bush he is an embarrassment to the nation in a manner which would easily qualify as criminal.
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Sean P
- City, State, Country
- Pasadena, CA
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- Our economy must dictate NASA budget
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Richard J. M
- City, State, Country
- North Carolina, USA
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- It's time for new blood and bolder actions to get the space program rolling again.
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Gustavo A
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- В
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- В
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Jon H
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chris b
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- uk
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Big Penis K
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- WTF - wrestling is more real than global warming
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Bernie F
- City, State, Country
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Stop the politicization of science
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Kerry L
- City, State, Country
- London, England
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- Griffin obviously had something to hide in the way that he obstructed Obama's transition team. He sounded like Bernie Madoff saying "you don't have to check the accounts, I'll tell you about them". That arrogance sealed his fate.
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