NASA Chief Aims to Stay 'Above the Fray' on Climate Change

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the Trump administration has been "very supportive" of his endorsement of scientific consensus that humans have contributed to climate change.

"The administration has been very supportive of my position," Bridenstine told Axios. "Nobody's given me a hard time about it at all."

Bridenstine said he wants to keep NASA "above the fray" on climate change issues, and "make sure that we are providing the absolute best science so that policy makers can make good decisions."

"What I find, Republicans and Democrats can disagree about what to do about what we are learning, but everybody, everybody on both sides of the aisle believes that we should study and understand what is happening to the planet because it is changing and everybody knows that," Bridenstine told Axios.

In May, Bridenstine conceded humans contribute to climate change "in a major way." 

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