We at M4GW believe that we DID land on the moon, furthermore we believe the men and walked on it who say that Global Warming is a hoax.
By Marc Morano - Climate Depot
Former Clinton Administration official and climate fear promoter Joe Romm -- followed in the footsteps of former Vice President Al Gore -- by linking skeptics of man-made global warming fears to those who believe the 1969 moon landing was staged.
The embarrassing problem for Romm is that he -- unknowingly -- used one of the most prominent global warming skeptics, NASA moonwalker Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, in an attempt to "prove" climate skeptics are akin to those who believe the moonlanding was staged.
Schmitt, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, declared 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."
But Romm, in his July 20, 2009 article railing on climate skeptics, failed to do basic research on moonwalker Schmitt's skeptical climate views. Romm approvingly cited Schmitt's scientific views in an article at Climate Progress that was intending to smear climate skeptics.
Romm asserted: "I'm just drawing the painfully straight line from the moon hoax people to the climate hoax people."
Romm approvingly quoted Schmitt rejecting moon landing conspiracy theories.
"If people decide they're going to deny the facts of history (about the moonlanding) and the facts of science and technology, there's not much you can do with them," Schmitt said.
Romm agreed with Schmitt's assessment about conspiracy theorists who think the moonlanding was staged, declaring "precisely." Romm then added, "Of course, denying the moon landing doesn't hurt anybody. But denying our scientific understanding of climate science -- and actively misleading the public -- imperils the health and well-being of billions of people and generations yet to come."
If only Romm had known Schmitt's and NASA moonwalker Buzz Aldrin's skeptical climate views, he could have avoided this latest embarrassment. Schmitt is an Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist, formerly of the Norwegian Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey. Schmitt 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.
Hey! You do believe that man landing on the moon? Oh... no. You just say so because you know you have to accept that idea...
Btw, we've already got 4 degrees C warmer climate on earth than pre-industrial levels. Reconstruction by Schwartz and Randall with a few comments:
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Climate bills and political negotiations are about 2 C warmer than pre-industrial level.
But we have already 4 degrees C warmer than pre-industrial levels. Off the Mark Lynas chart! So we must freeze our society. Now. Litterally. I'm totally serial. Otherwise we're in the middle of a chaotic catastrophe.
To be happy we must stop human activities, except runing around in 0.2 million dollar crapy performing electric cars, and ban 15W light bulbs for those who instead staying home consumuing unessecary electric power with ... those environmentally disastrous 15W bulbs.
Government must switch ppl's 15W light bulbs to electric cars. That's the energy saving future. I'm totally insane with this!
br, Al!
Whether the moon landings happened can be debated, but fact is that reaching for the stars and space exploration was the big thing in the movies well into the 90ies. What happened to the dreams of our childhood of starships and warp engines? Deindustrialization??? Solarpanels??? Windmills??