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)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday May 14 2018, @05:26PM (2 children)
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.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Monday May 14 2018, @05:42PM
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
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.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.