NASA's full of hot air

It's been a long time since NASA's done anything that would constitute "good." Their ineptitude in developing a replacement for the shuttle has been embarrassing and their efforts to get back to the moon, something we did successfully 40 years ago, has been a joke. Their repeated cost overruns and claims that they just can't get things done with the budget they have has been mocked by the efforts of private industry working with less money.

Then there's the ultimate disgrace: their advocating of the travesty that is the theory of man-made global warming.

In the late 80s, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located in Greenbelt, Maryland (just outside of D.C.), became one of the biggest screamers about global warming. The GISS's leader, Dr. James Hansen, is a crony of one Albert Gore, Jr., who has made a fortune off the global warming racket.

In October, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that temperatures around the world were dropping and that the month was the 70th warmest in the past 110-plus years. GISS came out and screamed that was a LIE, that October had been the warmest ten month of the year EVER.

Their support for this allegation was that temperatures from Siberia were 10 degrees above average. Instead of questioning this plainly extraordinary (and questionable) data, they ignored more concrete information from this nation, Western Europe and Asia. It turns out that the information from Siberia, not everything else, was wrong. In fact, they had used the same data from a couple of months before, and the GISS hadn't caught it.

This means either GISS is incredibly sloppy or was more than happy to used this skewed information to try to prove their theory, which is rapidly losing credibility. Considering the source, either is a rational explanation. Their refusal to investigate it, however, is weak.

The data from the GISS is one of four used by the U.N. Commission on Climate Change. Guess which one is consistently the highest? Amazing!

Dr. Hansen has been proven to be a partisan hack, not to mention completely incompetent. He should be gone gone gone, but we all know he'll stay. And that will just continue to erode NASA's overall credibility.