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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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Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts
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(Score: 3, Funny) by fritsd on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:06PM
grmbl... what happened to "speaking truth to power" in the "Land of the Free"?
Seriously, this would be a major scandal in any European country. Your government tries to hoodwink [wiktionary.org] you so they can truthfully proclaim later: "there is no reliable data (since we quietly defunded that project that delivered that data, phew!)".
What would your reaction be, if dioxin [journeyman.tv] sniffer poles were suddenly removed around US Superfund sites [epa.gov], in order to "save taxpayer money"?
This reminds me of the old Microsoft lightbulb joke:
Q: "How many Microsoft engineers does it take to replace a broken light bulb?"
A: "Darkness is the new standard. Deal with it."