Climate research is bad for the powers that be, so NASA is now mostly cancelled
NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50309495
NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science
These proposed cuts to NASA science are significantly harming not only the national security interests of the United States, but also the lives, safety, and resilience of citizens across the country and globe. While NASA’s astrophysics and planetary science divisions monitor and explore worlds and the Universe beyond our own, including potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, it’s NASA’s Earth science and heliophysics divisions that teach us things that directly impact our planet.
NASA’s Earth observing satellites and stations are key to monitoring climate, water resources, natural disasters and their impacts, air pollution, wildfires, droughts, and key infrastructure components all across the world. Satellite instruments monitor stores of groundwater, and can identify weather events even as they’re still forming over the oceans.
If we don't test for covid.... Lather rinse repeat.
Lather and rinse? Buddy you can't make me do nothing, you're affecting my free speech
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Every time a see a thumbnail with this dolt's face I always think, why the fuck is this doofus in charge of anything?
Because musk and the dictator had a spat and the original pick was someone associated with musk.
"Measuring emissions was good, as long as we could blame other nations for them and greenwash our stuff. Now that other nations are prioritizing renewables and blame us we don't need to measure anymore."
