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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: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:19AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:19AM (#679838) Journal

    is nonetheless also in the position of a CFO and is making a decision to save some money.

    A CFO that favours literally blowing that money - bet you the latest salvo of rockets in Syria cost more than the 'saved' $10mil. That must be a sign of 'sound economic thinking' - for the values of 'sound' usually associated with explosions.

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:46AM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:46AM (#679853) Journal

    A CFO that favours literally blowing that money... [Expensive rockets... Syria...]

    Yes, that one!

    That must be a sign of 'sound economic thinking' - for the values of 'sound' usually associated with explosions.

    You've got to admit, "sound" is a flexible and useful word, only one syllable, doesn't take up too much mental space, only five letters so very twittable.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:58AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:58AM (#679864) Journal

      You've got to admit, "sound" is a flexible and useful word, only one syllable, doesn't take up too much mental space, only five letters so very twittable.

      Not a chance in hell I'm gonna tweet my comment:)

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