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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 14 2018, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-data-equals-no-evidence dept.

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: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday May 14 2018, @06:21PM (4 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday May 14 2018, @06:21PM (#679699) Journal

    Agreed, it belongs in NOAA.

    But 10 million doesn't even attract Trump's attention.

    So I suspect there is some horse trading between NASA and NOAA going on.

    Maybe someone wants to move this pork barrel project, or kill it off as it is likely redundant with other projects already in operation.

    10 million barely covers two guys and office support staff in expensive office digs, buying expensive computer time for data processing, while nagging every actual source of data for better access. I suspect these guys were not accomplishing much, but managed to have a couple congressmen as friends to get their initial funding.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:29PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:29PM (#679704)

    Eh I think you're way off. $10 mil is more than enough to cover a team that is simply compiling and analyzing data from multiple sources. I suspect the science was uncomfortable for Trump's buddies as indicated by the massive campaign to defund and hide all climate science data.

    Obviously he has you fooled with the "drain the swamp!" montage, but the rest of us cringe.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:53AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:53AM (#679858)

      I suspect the science was uncomfortable for Trump's buddies as indicated by the massive campaign to defund and hide all climate science data.

      Do you have an example of the "uncomfortable science" produced by this project?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:14AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:14AM (#679962)

        Yes, co2 concentrations constantly increasing. we had a story recently...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:33PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:33PM (#680021)

          That was about the CO2 measurements taken on top of the largest active volcano in the world (which somehow doesn't matter since they filter out any sudden CO2 spikes...). If that is being shut down, good because it only makes them look really, really bad.

          Seriously though, I don't think those measurements had anything to do with the project under discussion here.