PROGRESSIVE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE:  NASA scientists are now warning that the Antarctic Larsen B ice shelf is going to detach and disappear:

[R]esearchers with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California at Irvine say that this remnant now faces its “approaching demise.” In a news release, NASA adds that “it is likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade.” If these two research teams are right, then the coming years could see major ice calving events off of the Antarctic peninsula. “What might happen is that for a few years, we will have the detachment of big icebergs from this remaining ice shelf, and then at one point, one very very warm summer, when you have lots of melting of the surface, the whole thing will just give way, and will shatter into thousands of smaller icebergs,” says the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Ala Khazendar, lead author of the new study.

Of course, as I recently posted, scientists have also observed that the Antarctic ice has thickened so much recently that they cannot even reach their destinations.  And NASA itself has become highly politicized, with high-ranking leaders toeing the Obama Administration’s line on global warming climate change, but many rank and file scientists publicly disagreeing. And with a little research, NASA’s Ala Khazendar, who is quoted in the Washington Post excerpt above, has several letters to the editor newspapers that evince strong political inclinations–most notably, an anti-Israel philosophy.  In a May 2002 letter to the editors of The Telegraph, for example, Dr. Khazendar condemns “the hateful racism that emanates from the other side [Israeli] of the Middle East conflict.”  In a October 2003 letter to the editors of The Guardian, Khazendar understandably criticizes Palestinian suicide bombings but simultaneously observes that “Zionism [has] dehumanised the Palestinians as a prelude to expelling them, or to justify placing them under a ruthless military occupation”.  In September 2009, he wrote to the Los Angeles Times, Khazendar criticizes a prior oped penned by an Israeli academic, saying,

Of which Zionist ideology exactly is Carmi proud? The one that demanded a homeland for the Jewish people in response to the persecution and genocide they suffered in Europe before and during World War II, or the Zionism that created Israel by expelling most of Palestine’s native inhabitants on the orders of the same man after whom Carmi’s university is named?

In June 2002, he wrote a short letter to the British Medical Journal in which he said, “Israel is indeed open and democratic, as long as one is not a Palestinian who has the misfortune of being a native of the land that it so much covets” In May 2006, Dr. Khazendar was even more bold, writing to The Guardian, criticizing the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict and concluding, “if the BBC is really plucky, perhaps it will start describing those Palestinian acts of terrorism as retaliations to Israeli persecution.”

But hey, I’m sure Dr. Khazendar is politically neutral when it comes to matters like global warming climate change.

UPDATE:  Oh, and let’s not forget that President Obama has turned NASA into a Muslim outreach organization.