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posted by martyb on Sunday November 19 2017, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the Science dept.

President Trump has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating polar sea-ice extent and concentration is being blocked.

A key polar satellite used to measure the arctic ice cap failed a few days ago, leaving the US with only three others, and those have lived well beyond their shelf lives. Scientists say there is no chance a new one can be launched until 2023 or later. None of the current satellites will still be in operation then. This will put an end to nearly 40 years of uninterrupted data on polar ice.

It seems like there would be a backup satellite, right? In fact, there was a backup satellite ready to go. Then the Trump Administration destroyed it earlier this year, by order of the US Congress. They said the storage costs were too high.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:28PM (4 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:28PM (#598972) Homepage Journal

    Thank you! It even says in the Original Submission that Congress gave the order. But I guess the administrators here don't read those. Fake News, phony stuff that tries to make me look bad, just goes right through!

    I’m very open-minded. I’m still open-minded. Nobody really knows. Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows. It’s not something that’s so hard and fast. And I’m going to study a lot of the things that happened on it and we’re going to look at it very carefully. But I have an open mind.

    Paris, I’m studying. I do say this: I don’t want that agreement to put us at a competitive disadvantage with other countries. And as you know, there are different times and different time limits on that agreement. I don’t want that to give China, or other countries signing agreements an advantage over us. So we might have to cancel that. #MAGA 🇺🇸

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Sunday November 19 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Sunday November 19 2017, @09:15PM (#599040) Journal

    I'm half convinced you are one of Donald's actual ghost writer's for twitter or other media and use this little corner of the web as your word smithing gym.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:36AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:36AM (#599191)

      nah, he makes sense therefore he is a bot. Some trump inspired grammar.

      • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:23AM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:23AM (#599505) Journal

        Nah, I figured it out. He uses an iterative process whereby he thinks up a blurb for a tweet or story, speech, etc, and writes the high level form here as a testing ground. Then it gets distilled down further one it passes litmus and makes its way to actual Donald accounts.

        Or a schizophrenic who thinks he is in fact Donald Trump in some weird doppelganger fantasy.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mrpg on Sunday November 19 2017, @10:44PM

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <reversethis-{gro ... yos} {ta} {gprm}> on Sunday November 19 2017, @10:44PM (#599053) Homepage

    AMERICA, FUCK YEAH | Trump version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWZwCWDD2k [youtube.com]