Trump White House axes Nasa research into greenhouse gas cuts

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Trump White House axes Nasa research into greenhouse gas cuts

 

President Donald Trump's administration has quietly axed US space agency Nasa's monitoring system into greenhouse gases, a US journal has revealed.

 

The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10m (£7m)-a-year project which remotely tracks the world's flow of carbon dioxide, is to lose funding.

 

Science magazine reports that its loss jeopardises the ability to measure national emission cuts - as agreed to by nations in the Paris climate deal.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44067797

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2018-05-11

[Expatthailover]

Shouldn't surprise anyone that dopey don is a climate change denier.

 

[harrycallahan]

Junk reporting. CO2 concentration has been measured since way back last century,  that's how they know it has risen with our industrialisation. This CMS thing is some of bureaucratic mob on top of that. Everyone is still measuring CO2 in the atmosphere. 

 

"Nasa's CMS has supported dozens of research projects since 2010 to make sense of monitoring and measurements of the world's carbon dioxide and methane through satellite and aircraft instruments."

[Stargeezr]

Just junk reporting to try make the USA look bad. Was this story started by Green Peace? Or David Suzzz ukie?

Just wondering?

Geezer

[RobFord]

1 hour ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Just junk reporting to try make the USA look bad. Was this story started by Green Peace? Or

David Suzzz ukie?

Just wondering?

Geezer

Just wondering? It’s obvious.

 

[simple1]

1 hour ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Just junk reporting to try make the USA look bad. Was this story started by Green Peace? Or

David Suzzz ukie?

Just wondering?

Geezer

As you probably know the Trump Administration has been busily reversing numerous funded environmental policies and activities cheered on by amazingly ignorant anti government voters. The effort is led by the corrupt EPA Secretary, but so far not fired as protected by Trump.

 

OP originally reported in Science Magazine.

 

The move jeopardizes plans to verify the national emission cuts agreed to in the Paris climate accords, says Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of Tufts University's Center for International Environment and Resource Policy in Medford, Massachusetts. "If you cannot measure emissions reductions, you cannot be confident that countries are adhering to the agreement," she says. Canceling the CMS "is a grave mistake," she adds.

 

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts

Edited May 11, 2018 by simple1

[Jonnapat]

2 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Just junk reporting to try make the USA look bad. Was this story started by Green Peace? Or

David Suzzz ukie?

Just wondering?

Geezer

The USA looks bad full stop

[DM07]

Can anyone just please hit that orange idiot in the face...

 

[mtls2005]

Not sayin' every climate change denier is a kiddie fiddler but, if the vestment fits, you must convict.

 

When in Rome...

 

Scott Pruitt Broke Bread With a Climate-Skeptic Cardinal Accused of Sexual Abuse

 

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt dined at a five-star restaurant with Cardinal George Pell, a climate-change skeptic who faces child sexual abuse charges, during a visit to Rome in June 2017, documents obtained by the New York Times show.

 

According to the Times, EPA staff knew the Cardinal was under investigation at the time, and multiple EPA schedules from that day do not include the meeting with Pell. Pruitt’s chief of staff and Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, were also at the dinner.

 

Cardinal Pell will soon stand trial for multiple counts of child sexual abuse. 

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/scott-pruitt-broke-bread-with-a-climate-skeptic-cardinal-accused-of-sexual-abuse/

 

 

[TKDfella]

3 hours ago, Expatthailover said:

Shouldn't surprise anyone that dopey don is a climate change denier.

 

While he may be a global warming denier, it is expected. He is, after all, a chief executive of the Trump corporation. He is looking after all those industries that might suffer if industry CO₂ levels were capped.

[spidermike007]

The Tiny Don administration is hellbent on destroying the environment, to promote industry. Little Don has never said no to a lobbyist as president. Not once. He has no principals, nor any vision, so why would he? He is perhaps the most dangerous man on the planet right now as it appears he is trying to lower the quality of life, for everyone on earth, and his policies are making both America and the world less great, and more dangerous. 

 

Thankfully, he will not remain in office for more than 12 more months. Resignation, impeachment, or prison, are in his future, and many of us will be very, very thankful for that. 

 

Tiny DT. The art of moving America backwards, and lowering the quality of life for the average American. 

The art of I cannot make a deal to save my life. 

The art of losing talent in droves, and replacing them with sycophantic fools, devoid of talent or experience. 

The art of attempting to lead a nation, while being infected with the thinnest skin of a world leader, in history. 

The art of not having a diplomatic bone in his body, and destroying long held alliances, with hate, hubris and a horrible lack of intelligence, vision and talent.

Edited May 11, 2018 by spidermike007

[AsiaHand]

Good Idea, This is not NASA's job.Their job is the exploration of space.

[eliotness]

Looks as If Trump is putting the brakes on the climate change gravy train !

[Rockhopper]

Good move by President Trump. Save money to monitor something that isn't a problem. Do your research, with an open mind! The volcano in Hawaii is releasing more than 10 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day. It's foolish to think human endeavour can have any effect on CO2 emissions. Besides, CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas. Again, do the research.

[farcanell]

2 hours ago, AsiaHand said:

Good Idea, This is not NASA's job.Their job is the exploration of space.

https://www.nasa.gov/

 

not according to NASA.

 

meanwhile... no study, no fake news ( per Vauses hilarious comment yesterday... fake news really means “bad news for me”[don chump])... therefore no measurable and verifiable climate change.... no action required to protect the climate from donors wishing to further destroy the climate

 

[farcanell]

4 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

Good move by President Trump. Save money to monitor something that isn't a problem. Do your research, with an open mind! The volcano in Hawaii is releasing more than 10 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day. It's foolish to think human endeavour can have any effect on CO2 emissions. Besides, CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas. Again, do the research.

Duh... uranium is radioactive and is a naturally occurring substance.... by your logic, there should be no need to give a damn about nuclear weoponry 

[farcanell]

16 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:

Good move by President Trump. Save money to monitor something that isn't a problem. Do your research, with an open mind! The volcano in Hawaii is releasing more than 10 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day. It's foolish to think human endeavour can have any effect on CO2 emissions. Besides, CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas. Again, do the research.

So.... I did my research.

CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.... according to USGS publications, and other sources, it is a global warming emission gas

 

But... volcanoes also emit SO2, which is a cooling gas... so volcanic gases both warm and cool, meaning some offset action perhaps, but that just me bumping my gums without researching the fact of it

 

so... back to research, facts and your post 

 

volcanic activity is estimated to produce a whooping 200 million tons of CO2 annually... that’s a staggering amount ( so hopefully the SO2 does offset that figure... but that opinion not fact... slap me back on track) but humans, according to the scientificamerican.com, produce 24 billion tons of CO2

 

so... 200 mill vs 24 billion.... what’s that? A dozen times more produced by humans, all added to the amount that nature can effectively deal with.

 

perhaps consider the old saying “ the straw that broke the camels back”.... or perhaps consider doing the research that you suggests others should do, before you post rubbish

 

 

[Jingthing]

6 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Just junk reporting to try make the USA look bad. Was this story started by Green Peace? Or

David Suzzz ukie?

Just wondering?

Geezer

The fact that the USA actually elected a climate denying demagogue makes the USA look bad. Don't need to invent anything for that. 

[rgraham]

Wasted money anyway.

[RickBradford]

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

The fact that the USA actually elected a climate denying demagogue makes the USA look bad. Don't need to invent anything for that. 

Perhaps the USA would look better if Hillary Clinton hadn't ushered President Trump towards the White House by declaring: "We're going to put a lot of coal miners, and coal companies, out of business." Against some very stiff competition, that might have been her stupidest remark of the campaign.

 

Besides, nobody really cares about this stuff any more; the virtue signallers can point to the 2015 Paris agreement as "solving the climate crisis", while countries like China and India have been given a free hand to pump out as much greenhouse gas as they want.

 

The Paris agreement was a win-win situation; only the true zealots still claim this makes the US "look bad."

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, rgraham said:

Wasted money anyway.

Indeed... 100% correct... you and I will be long dead before it effects our grandchildren, or great grandchildren.... bugger them and their offspring and the planet in general, because I just watched a rerun of Star Wars, and apparently we will all be living in another solar system by the time earths atmospheres is to rooted for human habitation.

[Justfine]

13 hours ago, Expatthailover said:

Shouldn't surprise anyone that dopey don is a climate change denier.

 

It's a scam dude. A UK court found Gore's film was full of factual errors.

 

 

[Justfine]

15 minutes ago, farcanell said:

Indeed... 100% correct... you and I will be long dead before it effects our grandchildren, or great grandchildren.... bugger them and their offspring and the planet in general, because I just watched a rerun of Star Wars, and apparently we will all be living in another solar system by the time earths atmospheres is to rooted for human habitation.

Co2 is good for plants. They thrive on it.

 

 

[Justfine]

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

The fact that the USA actually elected a climate denying demagogue makes the USA look bad. Don't need to invent anything for that. 

Temperatures were a lot warmer 10,000  years ago.

 

The fact so many have done zero research and just believe lefties in the media is sad.

[Oziex1]

7 hours ago, eliotness said:

Looks as If Trump is putting the brakes on the climate change gravy train !

To hit the go peddle on the real and original gravy train, corporate greed.

[Justfine]

https://principia-scientific.org/nasas-top-climate-scientist-discredited-in-failed-arctic-melt-prediction/

 

Long list of dud predictions from co2 alarmists.

 

Biggest scam in history.

[Justfine]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/30/some-failed-climate-predictions/

[55Jay]

7 hours ago, eliotness said:

Looks as If Trump is putting the brakes on the climate change gravy train !

[55Jay]

6 hours ago, farcanell said:

Duh... uranium is radioactive and is a naturally occurring substance.... by your logic, there should be no need to give a damn about nuclear weoponry 

So are bananas.  Uranium is weakly radioactive, I think the particles are dangerous if ingested/inhaled. 

 

Jumping from that all the way to nuclear weapons.....

 

 

[farcanell]

24 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

So are bananas.  Uranium is weakly radioactive, I think the particles are dangerous if ingested/inhaled. 

 

Jumping from that all the way to nuclear weapons.....

 

 

Exactly.... thanks for your support.... you see the stupidity of the anti blah blah bs