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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @01:48AM
I'll grant you that the current DoE head may be, at least publicly, anti-science. (could be pretending to get votes) His announcement of his presidential run made him sound like he was running for preacher.
Still, at that level in our government, what we need most is management skill. He may have that. He was a governor. Nobel laureates often have terrible management skills.
It also looks like he is doing the right thing for our country, likely under orders from Trump. We don't have any unnecessary weapons grade material. Long ago, in the nuclear arms race, we fell behind Russia. This is an absurd state of affairs when you consider needs and affordability. We need more because Russia has more land area. We can afford more because our economy truly dwarfs Russia's economy. It's long past time to fix the situation.