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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   
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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• Re:don't see why it has to be us every time Re:don't see why it has to be us every time (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday May 14 2018, @08:27PM (2 children)

  by Gaaark (41) on Monday May 14 2018, @08:27PM (#679761) Journal

  That's it: open your mouth and let the world know you're an idiot.

  Good work!

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• Re:don't see why it has to be us every time Re:don't see why it has to be us every time (Score: 3, Informative) by cmdrklarg on Monday May 14 2018, @08:48PM (1 child)

  by cmdrklarg (5048) on Monday May 14 2018, @08:48PM (#679771)

  Protip: Better to let people think you're an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

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  • Re:don't see why it has to be us every time (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday May 14 2018, @10:53PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday May 14 2018, @10:53PM (#679808) Journal

    That's what I said!

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