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: 4, Funny) by fritsd on Monday May 14 2018, @06:17PM (5 children)
Can anyone tell me how this is reported on, say, Fox News or CNN?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:35PM (4 children)
ahhahahahaah
oh wait, srs?
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday May 14 2018, @07:40PM (2 children)
Yeah, "srs", because Fox and CNN are where a lot of people get their news. Just because they are both terrible news sources defined primarily by corporate interests doesn't mean their reporting is irrelevant.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:56AM (1 child)
Get their... what again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:11AM
Internet ate your 1 brain cell?
(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."