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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: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday May 14 2018, @05:26PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday May 14 2018, @05:26PM (#679655) Journal

    Apparently we're using the Bugblatter approach to Climate Change:

    The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a vicious wild animal from the planet of Traal, known for its never-ending hunger and its mind-boggling stupidity. The Guide calls the bugblatter the stupidest creature in the entire universe - so profoundly unintelligent that, if you can't see it, it assumes it can't see you.

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  • (Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Monday May 14 2018, @05:42PM

    by e_armadillo (3695) on Monday May 14 2018, @05:42PM (#679663)

    This falls into the "If I don't like it, it is fake XXX" bucket where XXX can be news, science, etc

    I am not sure that Trump (or anybody in his circle) knows where his towel is.

    --
    "How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday May 14 2018, @06:01PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday May 14 2018, @06:01PM (#679674)

    That's a great name for the phenomenon. I usually referred it as the "La-La-La-I'm-Not-Listening" Approach, which most of us outgrow by age 5 or so.

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    "Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin