NASA chief unsure of need to tackle global warming
AFP, June, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Debate raged on Friday after NASA chief Michael Griffin said he was unsure global warming was a "problem we must wrestle with," drawing the ire of his own agency's top climate change expert.
Griffin, who has come under fire in Congress for cutting programs aimed at monitoring climate change, said in a US radio interview Thursday he had "no doubt that a trend of global warming exists."
But, he told National Public Radio, "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."
James Hansen, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's top official on climate change, expressed shock at Griffin's comments in a later interview with NPR.
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Asked his response, Hansen said: "I almost fell off my chair."
"It was a shocking statement because of the level of ignorance it indicated with regard to the ...
