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Langley at critical juncture

Published December 29, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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Former Langley employee Doug Dwoyer makes a call for action to position Langley in the future with a new administration coming in. Dwoyer’s call comes in an opinion piece that ran in Daily Press yesterday. View it here.

Our job as a community team is to make sure that the new administration recognizes these challenges, and recognizes that NASA and in particular NASA Langley can be major contributors to meeting the challenges. We only have a brief window to set the stage. Six months to a year from now, NASA’s direction within the Obama administration will be defined.

Dwoyer is a former associate director for center operations at Langley and currently is project director for the Hampton Roads Research Partnership and a member of the NASA Aeronautics Support Team.

Hansen: climate already in danger zone

Published November 25, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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View of Earth from nearby space; region of scene is South Asia.A international team of scientists has issued a report saying carbon dioxide levels already are in the danger zone, in contrast to other reports that claim it won’t be a problem until later this century. The team is led by Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Click targetco2_200804071 for the report, Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? and here for the story on cnn.com.

It’s like the economy, it’s a non-linear problem. You knew, given the continued input of big deficit spending that things would go to pot, but nobody could predict the time of collapse with any confidence.” – Hansen

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