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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:35PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:35PM (#679707)

    ahhahahahaah

    oh wait, srs?

  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday May 14 2018, @07:40PM (2 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday May 14 2018, @07:40PM (#679733)

    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.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:56AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @12:56AM (#679862) Journal

      Yeah, "srs", because Fox and CNN are where a lot of people get their news.

      Get their... what again?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:11AM (#679980)

        Internet ate your 1 brain cell?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by fritsd on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:06PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:06PM (#680078) Journal

    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."