thinkprogress.org — Last week Griffin subsequently clarified his remarks on global warming, stating that protecting the earth against global warming is not in the agency?s mission statement. What he didn't say is that it used to be.
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meanyogurtJun 6, 2007
"I have no doubt that global -- that a trend of global warming exists," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a taped interview that aired yesterday on National Public Radio. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with. 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." I thought the article cut off Griffin's comment a little short.
roncriJun 6, 2007Submitter
True but the point of the article is the way NASA quietly changed it's mission.