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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.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by frojack on Monday May 14 2018, @06:34PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday May 14 2018, @06:34PM (#679706) Journal

    likely including private entities who would be much more likely to share their data with a US gov institution.

    Or NOT.
    People are pretty suspicious of the US Government these days.

    Its equally likely these guys were having difficulty getting data out of other projects, especially foreign ones. Especially if they wanted it for free, or used their position to threaten other projects grants.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:11AM (#679830)

    PEOPLE may be suspicious of the US gov, but businesses by and large are not. Besides, some scientists using data for research is hardly the big scary gov people worry about. With a US gov group the companies can feel pretty safe they won't get in trouble, but handing it over to another country is probably a lot more worrisome.

    You're just making up a bunch of straw men arguments as if we should not apply Occam's razor here and should instead assume all the worst and craziest possibilities. It is NOT equally likely, but nice method of setting up a narrative.