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Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 14 2018, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-data-equals-no-evidence dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In recent years [...] satellite and aircraft instruments have begun monitoring carbon dioxide and methane remotely, and NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year research line, has helped stitch together observations of sources and sinks into high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon. Now, President Donald Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS, Science has learned.

Source: sciencemag.org)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @04:52PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @04:52PM (#679638)

    Obviously this is about the science and not the money. $10 mil? That is chump change in the gov spreadsheet. At the very least I get some Schadenfreude type pleasure watching the US destroy itself.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday May 14 2018, @05:58PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday May 14 2018, @05:58PM (#679673)

    At the very least I get some Schadenfreude type pleasure watching the US destroy itself.

    You seem to be under the delusion that the US won't at least try to take the rest of the world with it as it destroys itself.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:10PM (#679686)

      Nah, just made for a good sound-bite.

  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Monday May 14 2018, @06:04PM

    by BsAtHome (889) on Monday May 14 2018, @06:04PM (#679678)

    Yes, please destroy yourself. Why can't you hurry up and get destroyed faster. Then all others can finally stop seeing those "we are destroying ourselves" messages. Just do it faster, please.
    So, any other news I can bitch about? Or is the EU^H^HChina already top of the hill?

    I really would like us all to get along. Lets introduce slow-mail and slow-messaging. Any and all reply cannot be performed for at least one (work-)day. That may save the postal system too as a byproduct (did they vote for the Right Guy? I guess not).