In
a bad week for NASA, evidence shows the beleaguered space agency gagged
its climate scientists. But the policy is starting to back fire as
ex-employee speaks out.
Confirmation of the gagging policy comes from ex-NASA high-flier, Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi,
who upset his former employers with the 2007 publication of his paper,
‘Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres,’ in the
Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service.
Miskolczi
claims his illustriously-funded government employers tried to silence
him to preserve public credibility in its policy on global warming. The
noble doctor refused to be gagged and out of scientific principle chose
to quit and speak out.
The
root of the problem was in the ex-NASA man’s debunk of the greenhouse
gas (GHG) theory. Dr. Miskolczi claims he “proves that the classic
solution [greenhouse gas theory] significantly overestimates the
sensitivity of greenhouse forcing.”
But No NASA Gag on Warming Advocates
Now contrast and compare to what ‘New Scientist’ reported
in 2006 when pro-green doomsayer, James Hansen was chastised by his
employer for daring to suggest any such gag was in force. Hansen has
been a prominent and public climate doomsayer ever since.
Back
then Dean Acosta, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at
NASA, denied that there was any effort to silence Hansen. "That's not
the way we operate here at NASA," Acosta said. "We promote openness and
we speak with the facts."
Pointedly,
unlike Miskolczi, Hansen didn't resign from his well-paid post. Yet,
unlike Miskolczi, his petulant outburst garnered much pro-green media
interest.
Greenhouse Gas Theory ‘Bogus’
Now
free from the shackles of NASA censorship, Dr. Miskolczi is finally
coming to the fore as a serious critic of the theory behind man-made
global warming. He is gaining note for proving that the Earth has an
in-built ‘safety mechanism’ that prevents runaway global warming from
greenhouse gases.
The
top Hungarian physicist, in fact, identified that the greenhouse effect
upon which the whole man-made global warming theory is based, is
probably bogus. The highly-principled researcher discovered that the sum
of all radiation absorbed in the atmosphere is equal to the total
internal kinetic energy of the atmosphere. That in turn then is equal to
the total gravitational potential energy.
In
other words, the planet is most capable at keeping itself in a heat
energy balance and is not vulnerable to so-called runaway warming. Thus,
there is no ‘tipping point’ to fear from any atmospheric increase of a
trace gas such as carbon dioxide.
Support for Climate Skeptic
The
disgruntled former NASA man's views are much in tune with
world-renowned Swedish climate professor, Hans Jelbring. It seems other
scientists are becoming more open in their agreement with such findings.
This
is not what NASA and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) want the public to hear as President Obama’s Democrat
administration struggles to force through swinging cap and trade taxes
in the backdrop of an already over-stretched U.S. economy.
NASA’s Dr. Curry: NASA Numbers “drastic oversimplification”
Indeed,
so persuasive is Dr. Miskolczi among his scientific peers that no
advocate of the GHG theory (that relies on the Stefan-Boltzmann “black
body” numbers) has yet been able to refute him. As I recently reported, NASA
is now in a considerable quandary over what exactly is the correct
equation for Earth’s energy budget with their education department
currently printing high-school textbooks disagreeing with the orthodox
theory.
As
explained to me lately in e-mail correspondence by NASA’s Dr. Judith
Curry: “Everybody would agree that the simple black body planetary
energy balance model is a drastic oversimplification, it is used only
for illustrative purposes.”
So I asked Dr. Curry if NASA had a better set of equations than the crude Stefan-Boltzmann “black body” numbers: no answer.
Indeed,
Stefan-Boltzmann who devised the “blackbody” equation never intended
his numbers to be applied to a three-dimensional rotating planet. So why
NASA’s reluctance to accept a more sophisticated and accurate new
climate equation-or, at least use the tried and tested numbers that
safely got Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon?
New Revelations Encourage Scientists to Speak Out
Signing
up to join Dr. Miskolczi in the skeptic attack on the debunked
greenhouse theory are dozens of eminent international scientists in
tandem with a startling new research paper
that proved NASA Apollo Moon mission scientists, forty years ago, had a
better set of climate equations than the “black body” numbers that
NASA's own Dr. Curry says are," only for illustrative purposes. Why
doesn't NASA now come clean about this?
Concern about the science
behind the man-made global warming theory grew after the November 2009
Climategate. The official British Oxburgh Inquiry
into alleged ‘cherry-picking’ of climate data confirmed scientists
acted with subjective advocacy and being over-zealous ‘poor
statisticians.’
NASA to stall and Help Climate Bill in 2010?
U.S.
Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman, who unveiled their climate
bill earlier this month, will be sweating that NASA keeps this under
wraps as they seek to force through their controversial climate bill
passed before the break for Independence Day on July 4.
So if
NASA truly has no gagging policy over the climate controversy then
perhaps it should come clean and make a statement on these latest
developments and remove all doubt?
References:
Jelbring, H.R. (2002), 'The "Greenhouse Effect" as a Function of Atmospheric Mass,' published in 2003.
Miskolczi,
F.M. (2007) ‘Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary
atmospheres,’ Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service;
Vol. 111, No. 1, January–March 2007, pp. 1–40.
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