@jimmiebjr @EdDriscoll He didn't really say that did he?
— Jeannie-ology (@jeanniology) May 12, 2015
We all know by now that @BarackObama isn’t the president at all but rather his retooled campaign organization, Organizing for Action, and this warning about “climate change deniers” actually comes from an article published in the Huffington Post last week.
NASA leads the world in the exploration and study of planets. Let's not let climate change deniers change that: http://t.co/dcUlvdFaha
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/status/597914377426247682
What is that tweet supposed to mean? If you have the stomach to read the linked HuffPo article, you’ll find that it’s actually two separate quotes indelicately mashed together out of order.
@jimmiebjr @DanaPerino Does the WH just use a random quote generator now?
— Bob McClean (@peregrinatio) May 12, 2015
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement that the [recently approved] budget “guts our Earth science program and threatens to set back generations worth of progress in better understanding our changing climate, and our ability to prepare for and respond to earthquakes, droughts, and storm events.”
“NASA leads the world in the exploration of and study of planets, and none is more important than the one on which we live,” Bolden said.
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/597901783550296064
.@BarackObama @EWErickson …So why is OFA plagiarizing Charles Bolden, anyway? They need to be properly attributing quotes over there.
— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) May 11, 2015
“The supposed rationale for the committee’s cuts,” writes Kate Sheppard, “is that the members believe NASA should be focusing on space, not on earth science.”
https://twitter.com/x_1013_x/status/597914582691291136
@jimmiebjr @DanaPerino Climate’s been changing for millennia, vanity required to think we move the needle is staggering. And shameful.
— Kenton McCarthy (@colonelguano) May 12, 2015
@BarackObama "Climate change deniers" don't deny Medieval Warm Period or Roman Warm Period like the hacks in your Admin do.
— This 50 char name is great and so is Toto's Africa (@AspiringThrawn) May 11, 2015
@BarackObama @charlescwcooke I can only assume the connection is the greenhouse effect on Venus?
— Brownian Motion (@cobrownell) May 11, 2015
@MetricButtload @BarackObama It means he wants their budget nice and ripe so they can keep doing environmental propaganda as well.
— Gerry Daly (@GerryDales) May 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/597905706235236352
@jimmiebjr @instapundit How about you assigning a top priority of NASA to "reach out to Muslim countries"?
— Don Porter (@PorterDon) May 12, 2015
@BarackObama Climate Change/Global Warming is a hoax. Science is settled. Fund @NASA for manned space flight and stop the Muslim Outreach BS
— Harriet Baldwin ?? (@HarrietBaldwin) May 11, 2015
Update:
Shot: https://t.co/ppSuxQhtEz
Chaser: http://t.co/SHsVleBthL
Chaser: http://t.co/5Nn9B1ImH5
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 12, 2015
Dana Loesch offers a couple of chasers that are well worth exploring, including an open letter in The Guardian by Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan:
While the president’s plan envisages humans travelling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years.
Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the US is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. If it does, we should institute a programme which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.
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