Biden creates new climate adviser role at NASA
WaPo: NASA is elevating one of its top climate scientists to a new role, a move meant to put greater focus at the space agency on studying the causes and consequences of global warming under President Biden.
Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, will serve in the newly created position of senior climate adviser. He is being brought on in an acting capacity until NASA’s incoming administrator, who has yet to be named, makes a permanent appointment.
"Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, will serve in the newly created position of NASA's senior climate adviser."@ClimateofGavin is a climate clown. 1/https://t.co/r7LTbrtGgo
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 3, 2021
.@ClimateofGavin believes in secret science.
Below, the ever-arrogant Gavin refuses a request for information from University of Colorado atmospheric scientist Roger Pielke Sr. 2/ pic.twitter.com/mCkSSRhHm6
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 3, 2021
New Biden climate appointee @ClimateofGavin does not believe climate predictions need to be validated.
Below, one of ever-arrogant Gavin's slides from a January 2016 conference. 3/ pic.twitter.com/vOmTfnb1KM
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 3, 2021
Gavin Schmidt’s climate change foibles:
In 2009, Atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a prominent scientist from the Netherlands, wrote a scathing denunciation of Schmidt in which he said he was “appalled” by Schmidt’s “lack of knowledge” and added, “Back to graduate school, Gavin!”
Israeli Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv has also been critical. “The aim of [Schmidt’s] RealClimate.org is not to engage a sincere scientific debate. Their aim is to post a reply full of a straw man so their supporters can claim that your point ‘has been refuted by real scientists at RealClimate.org.’
Flashback 2007: Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate – NASA’s Gavin Schmidt appeared so demoralized that he mused that debates equally split between believers of a climate ‘crisis’ and scientific skeptics are probably not ‘worthwhile’ to ever agree to again – Schmidt on his teams debate loss: ‘We were pretty dull.’
Schmidt ‘was GISS deputy director, has a doctorate in applied mathematics, is ‘an expert in climate modeling’ and has ‘more than 100 published, peer-reviewed articles.’
“Gavin, In your opinion, what percentage of global warming is due to human causes vs. natural causes?”:
Schmidt: ‘I’d say somewhere between 80 to 120% of the warming.’