NASA administrator Michael Griffin, in an interview with NPR, accidentally brought the wrath of the Earthies upon himself by questioning lefty writ:

“I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists,” Griffin told Inskeep. “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,” Griffin said. “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.”

True, but NASA’s top climatologist has called Griffin “incredibly arrogant and ignorant!”

It’s unbelievable,” said [James] Hansen. “I thought he had been misquoted. It’s so unbelievable.”

They recoil in horror when it is explained that their conveniently twisted worldview might not be so. They’ve based lives and careers on the myth that is global orthodoxy, and they react with at least verbal violence when informed that the world just might be round.

A partial transcript can be found at the end of this article, where Griffin questions NASA’s role in jumping the bandwagon:

Nowhere in NASA’s authorization, which of course governs what we do, is there anything at all telling us that we should take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another. We study global climate change, that is in our authorization, we think we do it rather well. I’m proud of that, but NASA is not an agency chartered to quote “battle climate change.”

The climate change movement is not serious, anyway. If third world countries can pollute because they are poor, the fearmongers are not really frightened. If people like Al Gore can buy carbon credits, pay money for exemptions from limits, the fearmongers are not serious. If we’re all going to die, a country cannot engage in activity which will contribute to that death merely because one it has less money than others; likewise, a rich guy can’t contribute to our eventually death if he has enough money to pay to make the freaks look the other way. If this is serious, do something about it.