Waiting for EPA, NASA to improve

"The CDC, Environmental Protection agency and NASA all confirm that climate change is occurring and has disastrous consequences. Pretty reputable sources, wouldn't you say?" This from a recent letter in the FencePost. Reputable? Are we sure about that?

The EPA has done much good over the years, but as time progressed, it became a self-centered bureaucracy, seemingly more interested in its own power than anything else. This was brought home a few short years ago when the Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz spoke of the EPA's "general philosophy." Said he, "It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they'd crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years." This is "reputable"?

And NASA? Too many in that organization also let the lust for power run to their heads, so much so that some former NASA members have formed a group they named "The Right Climate Stuff (TCRS) research team." From their report: "Many of us felt these alarming and premature predictions of a climate disaster with so little empirical data to support these claims, would eventually damage NASA's reputation for excellent and objective science and engineering achievement." This team also quoted a good number of experts in the climate field who are not at all convinced that any significant warming is even occurring, man-caused or otherwise.

Me? I'm waiting for the EPA, NASA, et. al. to improve those reputations.

John Babush

Big Rock