{"id":24465,"date":"2017-09-02T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24465"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:22:09","slug":"anti-science-political-hack-named-to-run-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/anti-science-political-hack-named-to-run-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Science Political Hack Named To Run NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, please take two minutes to watch and listen to this, in order to calibrate:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g25G1M4EXrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, remove all liquid containing vessels from the vicinity, put on your head-desk helmet gear, and watch this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUcsAFnwC7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then, behold the fact that Jim Bridenstine, who has demanded that President Obama apologize for believing that global warming is real and important, is being appointed to run NASA.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, global warming did not stop in 2003<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No surprise here, planetary warming does not care about the election. Now including October data. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEUbaNRaxT\">pic.twitter.com\/SEUbaNRaxT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateOfGavin\/status\/798590342039617536\">November 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-names-climate-science-denier-to-run-nasa-c9a46a6f4a52\/\">this post at Think Progress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/getenergysmartnow.com\/2017\/09\/02\/for-nasa-realdonaldtrump-proposes-climate-science-denier\/\">this post at Get Energy Smart<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>Feel like signing a petition? <a href=\"http:\/\/act.climatehawksvote.com\/stop_bridenstine\">This is the one you should sign. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, please take two minutes to watch and listen to this, in order to calibrate: Now, remove all liquid containing vessels from the vicinity, put on your head-desk helmet gear, and watch this: Then, behold the fact that Jim Bridenstine, who has demanded that President Obama apologize for believing that global warming is real and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/anti-science-political-hack-named-to-run-nasa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-Science Political Hack Named To Run NASA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1358,856,1359,1360,1138,1361,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6mB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}