Posted on 11/23/2016 9:06:27 PM PST by Innovative
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said.
Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.
Related: 2016 locked into being hottest year on record, Nasa says
This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. Nasa’s network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division’s budget set to grow to $2bn next year. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017.
Bob Walker, a senior Trump campaign adviser, said there was no need for Nasa to do what he has previously described as “politically correct environmental monitoring”.
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He’s not quite of THAT degree of capability, although making a mythical legend out of him is tempting. Might this become like the tales told of the fighting power of Chuck Norris?
I can say that at one time as a softball assignment in an elective in college, I B.S.’ed a philosophy in which all that exists was an idea in the mind of God — kind of like Christian Science, come to think of it.
So according to this theory, the moon landings would be some kind of illusion of making measurements in another illusion. Heady stuff. Pass the pot, man, is Colorado an illusion too?
Just an aside: I wonder how moon landing skeptics explain the retroreflectors on the moon that seem to offer proof of earthlings having been there.
But he's not a conserrrrrvative...
Yes, NACA’s research and development function was rolled into NASA, but it served a different purpose. NACA continued the basic research the Wright brothers did in developing the aircraft in a way that avoided the costly and counterproductive fight over patent rights.
Constitutionally, that may be a bit more dubious, as much of that research could have been carried out by airplane manufacturers themselves. However, in the grand scheme of things NACA and NASA are constitutional misdemeanors, not worth quibbling over when you have the wholesale prostitution of the general welfare and commerce clauses used to create constitutional abominations like the EPA, Education, HUD and Agriculture.
NACA was not and NASA is not a regulatory agency creating unconstitutional laws. Both could easily be funded as defense department efforts, and keeping the management separate is(was) in the national interest even if not strictly authorized by the constitution, unlike most of the rest of the alphabet soup agencies whose creation was and remains a direct attack on the nature of our government as defined by the constitution.
This is very good news and I hope it includes GISS as well as NASA.
Ursula k legion “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Ansible.... a concept of cutting edge physics at the time... Not as cutting edge now as it was then... Probably doable.
here is the crux: for entangled particles, the act of measuring one particle doesn’t just change the state that particle is in, but also changes the state of the other particle. If the first particle’s spin was measured, and found to be up, the second particle’s spin would then change from being indefinite to being down. What is especially striking is that, according to quantum mechanics, the particles have this influence on each other however far apart they are, even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Since the 1980s, experiments have been performed demonstrating this phenomenon, with more recent experiments showing that the influence is taking place at least at 10,000 times the speed of
You are absolutely correct - on both counts and thank you for the reminder on Proverbs.
Yes; most excellent!
LOL. I love it but I hope CO isn’t an illusion - beautiful, if liberal state.
I will now sing myself to sleep to Rocky Mountain High. Thank HiT
Wow! With all the possible livable planets out there; this is really what you think?
Your tagline is correct but I think you were merely speaking of yourself if you truly believe this.
http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/features/superluminal-communication-were-talking-faster-than-light/
That was from a light communications article
Just Boulder.
We wouldn’t be able to prove it from the bible — however the idea of there being as many habitable worlds as envisioned in Star Wars seems unlikely from the odds of chance. Old-earth creationism is firmly on board that one... see, for example, http://www.reasons.org .
If there is a habitable exoplanet, the Lord would have miraculously planned it, too.
The true scientists (alt-mathematicians) throughout the ages were politically incorrect.
How the hell does “clear cutting forests” release heat-trapping gases?
I can see a “claim” that burning fossil fuels releases “gases” that may trap heat in the atmosphere, but cutting down a tree doesn’t release anything. All it does, as does a dying tree, is to stop producing oxygen and taking in carbon dioxide.
Now burning trees like the natives do in the Amazon to clear land for farming does release gases and particulate matter but is any EPA or NASA official going down to the Jivaro Indian and threaten them with jail and fines for doing so.
If so, they’d better learn how to grow a new head.
Now, the article was written by the far-left British newspaper The Guardian and apparently by MSN (or just carried by MSN), so the far-left environmental wacko bias was already built in to it.
Writing “voodoo science” and inaccurate science is no way to publish a newspaper, unless you are a British Marxist rag.
Great answer!! If the world’s gonna end because of it, SURELY 100 billion should be nothing to the EU or China r Japan or whomever.
Let them take care of it.
It’s been unseasonably cool here in the northeast.
Start at nighttime in early november.
But I forget, it’s climate CHANGE, not warming.
Because the earth’s climate never changed before. Or something.
This will make that Obama clone running ( perhaps that should be in parenthesis ) Canada even more nervous. Trump is living up to his name Trump.
It is supposedly human-provoked catastrophic climate change.
But this isn’t the world’s first rodeo with carbon dioxide in far more abundance than now, which somehow failed yet to result in the world swooning in heat.
There was a lot more once?
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