Physicist: Sen. Ted Cruz is right: Earth sciences aren’t NASA’s mission

Ted Cruz is right: Earth sciences aren’t NASA’s mission

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The deterioration of NASA and its contamination by mediocre Earth-bound pseudointellectuals has to be stopped and revertedSenator Ted Cruz asked the NASA administrator Charles Bolden (who was appointed in 2009 and has played the role of an Obama puppet ever since) what is the core mission of NASA.Bolden answered that he recently read the original National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and he concluded that NASA’s core mission is space exploration along with the investigation of the Earth’s environment and making the Earth a better place.If you click at the link in the previous sentence and read the bill, you will see that 2/3 of Bolden’s claim are dirty shameless lies. There isn’t an iota in the bill that would say that NASA has something to do with the environment, with its protection, with the climate or its change, with climatology, with the warming, with the investigation of any Earth sciences in general, or with making the Earth a better place.Instead, NASA’s mission – and not just core mission, all of the mission – is exactly what a person with common sense would expect: to develop and deploy the technology with which you may fly in the atmosphere and beyond the atmosphere and to go into space and explore it. It is really the objects that fly, like the rockets, that NASA is all about. They may be used in several – usually obvious – ways but if it doesn’t fly, it is not NASA’s business. Due to the partial successes of the commercial space companies, NASA’s mission has effectively become narrower, not wider – it should focus on things that fly beyond the low Earth orbit.You don’t need a PhD to guess that this is what the law prescribes NASA to do. The acronym stands for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. There is indeed nothing about the environment, about the climate, about the warming, about the protection of the environment, about Earth sciences, or about improvements of the planet Earth.Bolden just made it up – all these things. It may be useful to copy the bill’s definitions of the key notions that NASA is supposed to work with:Sec. 103. As used in this Act —(1) the term “aeronautical and space activities” means (A) research into, and the solution of, problems of flight within and outside the earth’s …

Agenda 21: ‘Its influence has now spread so widely into all government institutions throughout the World’

Agenda 21

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By Paul Homewood Reposted from Roger Helmer’s blog: Wikipedia defines the UN’s Agenda 21 as “An action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development”. Of course we immediately recognise the phrase “sustainable development” as weasel words, a catch-all term incorporating a host of modish obsessions. Much of the activity described as “sustainable” is clearly unsustainable – for example, the EU/UK energy policy which is doing such huge economic damage across the continent. A better phrase for the UN’s Agenda 21 might be “An action plan with regard to climate alarmism and carbon dioxide paranoia” – though it covers a wide range of other fashionable leftist issues as well. The odd thing is that most people have simply not heard of Agenda 21 – although local authorities across the country, and government institutions across the world, at national and local level, have signed up to it. There’s even a cultural dimension. Clearly then, Agenda 21 is a key part of the UN’s global governance pretensions, and it seeks to drive policies which generally speaking are pretty unpalatable to our party. One party member, Anne-Marie Smith, has been particularly exercised over Agenda 21, and frustrated that it seems to operate under the radar, with citizens and voters largely unaware of it. I invited her to put her thoughts into a few hundred words, and I promised to run them as a guest blog. Here they are: UN Agenda 21 – Anne-Marie Smith Few political discussions are now taking place without some mention of whether Britain would be better served by removing itself from the EU. However our politicians and MSM seem strangely quiet about the real elephant in the room: UN – Agenda 21. Perhaps the reason for this, is that its influence has now spread so widely into all government institutions throughout the World, without revealing to citizens the true nature and intentions of the agenda. Indeed it has now been adopted by many local councils in Britain as Local Agenda 21. It was back in 1992 that the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, and here 179 nations officially signed up to Agenda 21 — many more have followed since. Maurice Strong has been the driving force behind the imposition of Agenda 21, and was also a member of the UN’s Commission on Global Governance. Below are several quotes by Maurice Strong …