Former NASA Employees Express Concern to NASA for Endorsing Global Warming

Part 2 of 2.

As former employees of NASA, it was only a matter of time before the concerns expressed by all five at Heartland's iccc7 "The NASA Letter Writers" panel would lead to action over NASA's extreme advocacy for an unproven theory.

The failure of NASA and the GISS to objectively assess all available scientific date on climate change threatened the reputation of NASA's current and former employees, and even puts science itself at risk for public ridicule and distrust.

Credited in "getting the ball rolling" was the moderator of "The NASA Letter Writers" panel, Leighton Steward. He suggested that a letter be written and sent to NASA after finding through a series of lectures presented at the Space Center in Houston to ex-NASA scientists that 90 percent of those present disagreed with the NASA-GISS global warming position.

Steward's suggestion was realized in a joint letter sent on March 28 to the Honorable Charles Bolden, Jr. NASA Administrator NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. A sure sign that the NASA-GISS is about over.

The NASA letter was signed by 50 former NASA scientists and astronauts, included seven Apollo astronauts and two former directors of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.      
 
Together the 50 NASA experts have more than 1,000 years of combined professional experience.
 
"The NASA Letter Writers" -- Cunningham, Schmitt, Doiron, Wysmuller and Steward -- were signors of the joint letter to NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden, Jr., which asked him to refrain from making unproven and unsupported remarks about global warming.

News was made during Heartland's "The NASA Letter Writers" panel event with an announcement of a followup NASA letter prompted by NASA's failure to end the spreading of information with outlandish global warming conclusions. 

The text has been written and signatures are now being gathered.

Recently a new website has been created which features all five of the "The NASA Letter Writers" in their combined present-day mission to take on the challenge of evaluating the narratives of both the advocates of AGW and also the Skeptics of AGW. As related to me by Thomas Wysmuller, the new website will eventually include other educated and experienced scientists and engineers from various disciplines.   
 
Individual presentations are already up for review.

Also worth investigating is the website noted on Wysmuller's business card, which denotes his availability upon request to present a lecture and slide presentation to University, High School, and public/private organizations that answers questions such as "Is Global Warming real? and "Is the Arctic polar cap rapidly melting?" For presentation information, contact tom@colderside.com.
 
Even though the five participants in Heartland's iccc7 "The NASA Letter Writers" panel arrived in Chicago from their homes in different parts of the country, I was eager to hear if there might be a Lake Forest connection among those featured with another retired astronaut, Commander James Arthur Lovell, Jr., who flew four missions (Germini 7, Germini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13). Lovell's NASA career started when he was chosen in 1962 to participate in the space program, until he left NASA in 1973.  
 
With my home in Lake Bluff adjacent to Lake Forest, Lake Foresters have every reason to be proud of its celebrity resident and retired astronaut.

Eager to hear of any local connection, I approached Walter Cunningham of Apollo 7 fame, asking if he knew Lovell. I was aware that Lovell's Apollo 8 mission on Dec. 17, 1968, followed in close proximity to Cunningham's October 11,1968 Apollo 7 mission.
 
And there was! Cunningham not only knew Lovell, but he had trained with him for many years. Likewise, Wysmuller was well acquainted with Lovell as a former employee at the Johnson Space Center.  
 
Further inquiring of Cunningham why Lovell wasn't participating as one of "The NASA Letter Writers"?, Cunningham replied, "Jim is likely involved in other things, and he's also getting old."
 
Perhaps Illinois's Lake Forest celebrity and former NASA astronaut needs a nudge to become involved himself in the noble efforts of his fellow NASA compatriots.  
 
The Heartland Institute, which has gained worldwide recognition as a credible man made global warming skeptic through its presentation of seven International Climate Change Conferences is certainly not about to back down even after "Fakegate" attempted to paint a false and disturbing picture of Heartland's motives and tactics.
 
Well worth taking the time to read --especially in the aftermath of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta linking global warming to national security. Roger Aronoff's "For Accuracy in Media" report is based on a recent interview with Sen. James Inhofe, which focused on his powerful new book, The Greatest Hoax. 

Aronoff commends Inhofe "for his courage, wisdom and persistence in practically single-handedly resisting the forces in the media, and in Congress, who insist that "the U.S. line up with the U.N. and adopt the draconian steps required to engage in this budget busting, business, destroying endeavor that would impinge on our national sovereignty and person freedoms."