I agree, David. I warned the Space Science Board in 2008 that NASA’s image would be tarnished by promoting AGW propaganda as scientific facts:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10640850/ProgramandQuestionForNASPresidentandSpaceScienceBoard.pdf
The next year, official responses to information in the 2009 Climategate emails and documents convinced me that the Administrators of NASA and EPA, the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, and the Secretary of DOE have little or no more control than you or me or puppets on a string.
Who/what pulled the strings? Probably the instinct of survival, fear of the “nuclear fires” that consumed Hiroshima, and lack of appreciation for Einstein’s insight into the spiritual and physical aspects of reality in E = mc^2.