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To: longnshort who wrote (87056)	4/11/2012 1:17:48 PM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 89467

The signers of the letter are not intellectually qualified to critique the work of James Hansen and his colleagues at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the rest of the leading climate scientists. I'll be surpirsed if you can point me to any publications in the climate science peer-reviewed literature by any of the letter-signers. They couldn't give you a meaningful exposition of Hansen's analysis, nor a meaningful critique of it. I also note that they appear to be predominantly connected with the Johnson Space Center, i.e., the human space flight portion of the NASA budget. They are interested in protecting the Johnson Space Center budget, but this seems sort of an ignorant way of going about it. I have nothing in principle against human space flight, though I think its foreseeable future is seriously limited by distances. But I wouldn't spend another dollar on astronauts if it in any way compromised funding for the more important NASA Earth Science program, in particular the remote-sensing satellite global climate observing system and associated data systems and scientific research.

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