Trump's new NASA head: 'No reason to doubt' climate change science - Polidicks

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/389168-nasa-head-no-reason-to-doubt-climate-change-science Jim Bridenstine, the Trump administration’s newly installed NASA head, said on Wednesday that he now believes human activity is the main cause of climate change. Bridenstine, speaking at a Senate Appropriations Committee subpanel's hearing, said his views on climate change have changed from his previous position that it is unclear how much humans contribute. “The National Climate Assessment that includes NASA, and it includes the Department of Energy and it includes NOAA, has clearly stated it is extremely likely — is the language they use — that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming,” he said, referring to ongoing government-wide research on climate, which resulted in a major report last year. “I have no reason to doubt the science that comes from that.”Bridenstine was answering a question by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who followed up by asking if the NASA head had undergone an “evolution of your views.” “Yes,” he responded. NASA is one of the primary agencies focused on climate change in the federal government. Its satellites and other equipment closely track the temperatures of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere, as well as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and other important measures. Bridenstine’s climate skepticism was one of the chief reasons Democrats opposed his nomination to lead NASA and sought to block his confirmation to the post. He was nonetheless confirmed by a Senate vote of 50-49 last month, entirely along party lines.

Poor guy won't have his job for much longer.

Worse part is, it'll be just another Trump administration resignation.

Props to the guy for changing his mind though, wish we had more of thar when people are present solid evidence

Maybe im just being a bit paranoid (not sure if this is the right word) but someone who was so against climate change and is now saying its real scares me more. How much more fucked is it than we already thought?

Lol he's soon to be Trump's old head of NASA.

Let's see him grow a backbone and actually direct action against climate change. I'm not convinced that this is anything more than a way to ease the pressure he's facing.

2 weeks later... ”Trump appointed NASA Head resigns, totally his choice. Really.”

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He has no scientific background, he is just really into space, Wikipedia says he "focused heavily on space policy during his tenure in Congress".

Don't understand the denial behind this. Even if you're pro business and anti regulation you have to realize the wide spread economic impacts climate change will have. Not to mention a massive immigration crisis, its like all of the republicans worst fears realized.

It could be that, now that he has access to literal, legitimate climate scientists, with all the instrumentation, data, and logs at their disposal, that he has been shown irrefutably that climate change IS happening, and that human activity IS playing a part. It's sort of like when my mom tried telling her doctors that she had Crohn's disease, and they said "Nah, no you don't!" until they finally ran tests, saw the data, and said "Wow, you've got severe Crohn's!". Most of the people denying climate change have probably only ever seen/read an incredibly watered-down version of the papers/findings into the phenomenon, and using their incredibly basic understanding of science and climate decided that they knew better than 98% of the world's scientists.

2 weeks later... "Trump appointed NASA head renamed 'Laika' and blasted into the Sun."

That's part of the problem in explaining climate change I have found. Some of the reasons people don't get it and therefore think it's manufactured, is that the watered down version often have holes in the explanation. Additionally, to understand the whole picture is such a broad topic it starts becoming almost too much to take it.