@inbook{0e089db7be154f6ead9ba4c244ee9741,
title = "“At Risk of Collapse”",
abstract = "In the 2001–2006 period Asrar{\textquoteright}s situation deteriorated. While Asrar got sea-level rise satellites up, along with the three larger satellites that had emerged from the EOS downsizing, he had serious funding problems assuring future missions. Also, Goldin sought to shift EOS climate follow-ons to NOAA and its huge weather satellite system, NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System). The Jason-2 wide-swath technology failed to develop. James Hansen sounded the alarm on climate change and criticized scientists for “reticence,” especially about sea-level rise. When NASA Administrator Sean O{\textquoteright}Keefe reorganized Earth Sciences under a Science Directorate, Asrar{\textquoteright}s science constituency saw his influence falling. O{\textquoteright}Keefe{\textquoteright}s successor, Michael (Mike) Griffin, seemed to question whether NASA should even do climate change work. Outside NASA, scientists revolted and got a National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NRC) Decadal Survey underway lest the Earth Science program “collapse” in their word.",
keywords = "James Hansen, Michael (Mike) Griffin, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NRC) Survey, Sean O{\textquoteright}Keefe, The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)",
author = "Lambright, {W. Henry}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2023.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-40363-7_7",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "69--82",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology",
}