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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.
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Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Monday May 14 2018, @07:42PM (5 children)
Well, he's already started to topple the dominoes in the Middle East in Israel and Iran. If he can ensure a runaway Greenhouse Effect (am I showing my age?) he'll all but guarantee the End Times. Better stock up on baked beans, toilet paper and semi-automatic weapons, ammo and anti-tank munitions for the Tribulation.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 14 2018, @07:47PM (4 children)
Why would anyone want to survive that? Look, I've known since childhood how fragile and brittle and interconnected this charade we call "civilization" is. If it all breaks down, I'd rather die (and if I have to reincarnate on another world due to not learning everything I was supposed to before a premature death, so be it) than live through that bullshit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Monday May 14 2018, @10:29PM
But then you'd miss my insightful trolling!
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 14 2018, @10:32PM
Why? A most excellent question. I can't answer it except because I am a survivor. Maybe because giving up just doesn't feel right. Maybe I hope that I can preserve some element of civility by choosing to protect what I can. Most probably because I made an oath that I would have and hold my wife and our cats... I owe it to them to try.
I'm not the only one who will try, either. That's all civilization is, anyway, IMVHO. Sometimes we are more successful than others.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:29AM (1 child)
I would want to survive it because there are still fun things to do that I haven't done yet.
I want to live forever because there will always be fun things to do (there are issues with body decaying because of age, but I figured we could leave that out of this particular conversation).
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:10PM
Er, you want to live a long time, not actually forever. The reasoning why is heavy going, but includes that eventually a finite mind will run out of things it is *possible* to experience, and I mean this in the broadest possible sense, i.e., 2 separate runs of a billion years being burned alive are different "experiences" if they feel different for just one second that you can perceive. Don't get greedy; no one can open their mouths wide enough to swallow infinity (insert "yo mama" joke here...).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...