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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.
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Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by waximius on Monday May 14 2018, @05:23PM (4 children)
Neither the Trump administration nor the republican platform recognize climate change as an immediate problem for humanity. It says as much in the republican platform itself (link below, page 22 among others). There is nothing "quiet" about them cutting a measly $10 mil from the budget, they are simply taking actions that align with their very clearly espoused beliefs, no matter how wrong or ignorant they are of the science behind climate change.
Before we label this as some sort of secret, clandestine plan, how about we provide evidence of sneaky behavior in the contents of the article? Until we have proof of a secret agenda, it's a very overt, not-secret agenda backed up by many months of similar actions taken by this administration to down size government-supported scientific programs. The republicans are simply doing their jobs in accordance with their beliefs without calling fanfare to every tiny little decision they make like this. That doesn't mean they're doing it "quietly" anymore than I ate cereal (gasp!) for breakfast this morning without sending a press release.
This article should have been labelled "everybody witnesses Trump administration making poor decisions in light of established science... again... news at 11". Or am I supposed to be outraged and surprised that they're doing this?
I guess if anybody admitted this was public knowledge then it wouldn't drive clicks. "Drive libs crazy with this one SECRET budgeting trick!" I'm tired of clickbait...err, every freaking website trying to get me to click their links in 2018.
/rant
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pdf [gop.com]
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday May 14 2018, @05:33PM (3 children)
You'd think the people who are so concerned that the "science isn't settled" would want to settle it. Guess not...
(Score: 5, Informative) by waximius on Monday May 14 2018, @05:46PM
Yeah, guess not... despite the fact that 97% of scientists agree with each other that anthropogenic global warming is a real thing. But I wouldn't expect them to read a scientific paper proving this, either, since that's literally the problem in the first place.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/pdf;jsessionid=72A06405788C7BA546917DB3DDCEF611.c1/ [iop.org]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Monday May 14 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
Yup...no "conspiracy" here. They're not even trying to hide their war on science. No reason to be surprised by any of this, from the same administration who's DOE decided that converting unnecessary weapons grade material to safe nuclear fuel creating jobs in the process...pretty much a win win win...was somehow a bad idea, and that making more weapons grade material was somehow a good idea:
https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/s-c-politicians-angry-about-doe-plans-to-abandon-mox/article_ed18038c-5558-11e8-bd3c-1b1da952e811.html [aikenstandard.com]
This is what happens when you go from a DOE headed by Nobel laureates to one headed by an anti-science idiot from a fossil fuel state. Make no mistake...this is a war on science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @01:48AM
I'll grant you that the current DoE head may be, at least publicly, anti-science. (could be pretending to get votes) His announcement of his presidential run made him sound like he was running for preacher.
Still, at that level in our government, what we need most is management skill. He may have that. He was a governor. Nobel laureates often have terrible management skills.
It also looks like he is doing the right thing for our country, likely under orders from Trump. We don't have any unnecessary weapons grade material. Long ago, in the nuclear arms race, we fell behind Russia. This is an absurd state of affairs when you consider needs and affordability. We need more because Russia has more land area. We can afford more because our economy truly dwarfs Russia's economy. It's long past time to fix the situation.