An Inconvenient Astronaut…
Yeah… I never tire of poking fun at Al Gore and his man-made global warming sycophants:
NASA Moonwalker Joins Skeptics Despite Gore’s Claim Skeptics Believe Moon Landing was ‘Staged’
Gore’s frequent comparison of global warming skeptics to people who “believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona” was delivered a major blow when Moonwalker and Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist [Harrison] “Jack” Schmitt who flew on the Apollo 17 mission declared he was a skeptic. “The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society’s activities,” Schmitt said. See: Astronaut Jack Schmitt Joins Skeptics & For Gore, a very inconvenient moonwalker.
The question looms: How can Gore claim skeptics are akin to people who believed the moon landing was “staged” when one of the moonwalkers himself is a skeptic?
Schmitt is featured in the U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 (and rapidly growing) International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Below is Schmitt’s full entry in the Senate’s 650 Plus Scientist Report:
Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist and Moonwalker Jack Schmitt, formerly of the Norwegian Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, has received numerous awards in his career including the Space Center Superior Achievement Award and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Schmitt, a member of the Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, rejected man-made climate change concerns in 2008. “The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society’s activities,” Schmitt wrote on November 17, 2008. “As a geologist, I love Earth observations. But it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a “consensus” that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. ‘Consensus,’ as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science,” Schmitt explained.
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9 January, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I love to see people poke fun at Gore. I am amazed how disbelieving people can be on many issues but they have taken his word as gospel without any real scientific proof.
In case you haven’t seen the new Brietbart site they have a piece on Gore:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mvandergalien/2009/01/09/hollywood-pushing-global-warming-down-your-throat/
9 January, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Playing on peoples fears is the oldest con game on the planet, it’s been the standard MO of government and religion for all of recorded history, probably longer.
It’s good to see there are still plenty of people with the smarts to question this sort of nonsense.
13 January, 2009 at 2:14 am
Bob,
Tens of thousands of scientists ON RECORD outright debunking the global warming nonsense.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/ and http://www.petitionproject.org/
Problem is, no one wants to listen. Global warming stands to give them too much power and make them too much money. They figure by the time anyone realizes it’s BS, they’ll have their booty and be gone.
13 January, 2009 at 2:15 am
Gramfan: Gore is a pompous, scheming, lying windbag. If global warming were happening, getting rid of him would cut human emissions by at least half.