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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.

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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) by The Shire on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:27PM (1 child)

    by The Shire (5824) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @02:27PM (#680048)

    >Again, there's something to be said for faithfulness of the results as science and not as a political tool.

    We're talking about $10 million here which can easily be funded by interested private entities or universities. The allocation of taxpayer money for these sorts of things should be outside the purview of the government - monitoring CO2 is a purely scientific venture, it's not something required to run the nation. This move by Trump is in keeping with the philosophy of smaller government. If a non governmental issue is really important to a group of people, they're welcome to organize themselves and fund it.

    In this way you can completely avoid using it as a political tool.

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:34PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:34PM (#680068) Journal

    The allocation of taxpayer money...should be outside the purview of the government

    I am not sure who should be allocating tax money, if not the government. Even if it's tax money "for science". Isn't the government the organization that allocates all the tax money, by definition? Maybe I am misunderstanding something.

    monitoring CO2 is a purely scientific venture, it's not something required to run the nation...in keeping with the philosophy of smaller government.

    While important government policy decisions may hinge on what the CO2 data show, I agree that it doesn't need to be cooked in-house... In fact, smaller government + independent data is a win all around.

    If a non governmental issue is really important to a group of people, they're welcome to organize themselves and fund it.

    I couldn't agree more.