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)
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:34PM
I am not sure who should be allocating tax money, if not the government. Even if it's tax money "for science". Isn't the government the organization that allocates all the tax money, by definition? Maybe I am misunderstanding something.
While important government policy decisions may hinge on what the CO2 data show, I agree that it doesn't need to be cooked in-house... In fact, smaller government + independent data is a win all around.
I couldn't agree more.