NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness

Last week I added an article about a NASA climatologist who was being silenced for his predictions about global warming. I had one ostrich dispute the entire belief the world is getting warmer and several who, like me, agree that those who dispute it are simply hiding from reality.

Today, in a New York Times article NASA chief Michael D. Griffin called for "scientific openness" within NASA, with the following statement:

"It is not the job of public-affairs officers," Dr. Griffin wrote in an e-mail message to the agency's 19,000 employees, "to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific material produced by NASA's technical staff."

Within the interview are some interesting clues that show the extent to which the Bush administration is going to stop NASA scientists from talking openly about global warming.