Michael Strahan Criticized For 'Significant Contribution To Global Warming’

Former footballer Michael Strahan has an impressive resumé.

In addition to his 15-season career in the NFL playing for the New York Giants, Strahan has gone on to become a journalist and American TV personality. Now he can add astronaut to that list, as the 50-year-old Texas-native took a trip with AlanShepard's daughter to the edge of space.

In a recent Blue Origin flight on Saturday, December 11, Strahan and five other passengers took a trip on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket for a trip of a lifetime.

After the rocket touched down outside of Van Horn, Texas, Strahan reportedly told Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, “I want to go back.”

“TOUCHDOWN has a new meaning now!!!” Strahan wrote in a Twitter post upon his landing.

“WOW…. that was amazing!!!” he added, tagging @blueorigin and @SMAC in the post.

In the video, Strahan is all smiles in the 35-second clip, which also shows him still wearing his blue spacesuit.

“Yo! Flights over! We’re done! I’m back at the training center here, and I have to say it was SURR-REAL, however you want to spell that. But it was unbelievable. It’s hard to even describe it. It’s going to take a little bit to process it but it couldn’t have gone better,” he said before he started to show off elements of his outfit.

“Got my hat. Got my wings,” he says in a sing-song voice. “I can fly. I did today. Gonna be a lot to match this. Wow. That’s all I can say. Wow. There we go. Michael. Astronaut-stray. Out.”

Even though Strahan was obviously excited in the video, fans did not share his enthusiasm.

“Thank you for your significant contribution to global warming through your vain space tourism,” one user commented.

“Good job polluting,” wrote another.

“You’ve wasted millions to feel a few minutes of 0 gravity,” another wrote beside a face-palm emoji.

“Did you know that 75 tonnes of carbon is emitted for each passenger on your joy ride & exacerbating #climatechange?” another asked. “All so the rich & famous can go to space for 10 minutes. #ClimateEmergency.”

Yesterday, Jeff Bezos was called tone-deaf when he failed to respond promptly to the Amazon warehouse collapse that killed six workers, but he was labeled with that word yet again last month when he attended the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to lament the thinning atmosphere that he was helping to destroy with frequent Blue Origin space trips.

He was quoted as saying that nature “provides all the food we eat, the water we drink, and the oxygen we breathe. It gives us life.” He then told the audience that while it is beautiful, it is fragile as well.”

“I was reminded of this in July when I went into space with Blue Origin,” he continued. “Looking back at Earth from up there, the atmosphere seems so thin. The world so finite and so fragile.”

However, environmentalist Greta Thunberg had some harsh words for Bezos after he arrived at the summit in his private jet.

“Change is not going to come from inside there—that is not leadership. This is leadership,” Thunberg said outside the meeting. “We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet. No more exploitation. No more blah blah blah. No more whatever the f— they are doing inside there.”

According to Thunberg’s group, the helicopter that took Bezos from his superyacht moored in Turkey to his private jet generated 215 pounds of CO2 emissions alone.