Killing Me Softly
john posted in politics & culture on June 1st, 2007
In a remarkable early-morning melange NPR on the car radio summoned up images of the post-modern, the Victorian, and the evangelical invasion this morning. I was already mulling over the perverse statement from the head of NASA, Michael Griffin, that
Quoting from NPR website:
“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.”
Mr. Griffin also insists we abandon scientific missions in favor of a quixotic manned base on the Moon. That’s a bit like a victory of the Hardy Boys over the grown-ups or a dose of magical realism in the halls of engineering. I believe we can assume this represents the fall-back position of Bush administration political hacks, ‘first you have to prove that climate change is a problem by showing us some disasters’ then of course it will be too late to act.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin from NPR site photo by Karen Bleier from AFP/Getty Images