NASA Back on Track

On NPR, no less, and presumably with deliberate intent. NASA head dismisses concerns over global warming:

"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," Griffin told Inskeep. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with." "To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change," Griffin said. "I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."

Arrogant? Liberals arrogant?

So delicious. After some outrage from junior scientists at NASA, one of whom featured prominently in the Goracle's bogus opus, Griffin brushed them back some more:

It is NASA's responsibility to collect, analyze and release information. It is not NASA's mission to make policy regarding possible climate change mitigation strategies.

Firmly quashing the all-encompassing silliness of the Left's recent suggestions that global warming is a matter of national security.

UPDATE: For once I agree with Greenpeace. FT:

Robin Oakley, of Greenpeace, said Mr Bush’s gambit was “a classic spoiler” ahead of the G8, “designed to kick this issue into the long grass until he leaves office”.