[dayglored]

So $600M is too much to spend on monitoring greenhouse gas.

But $50B (or whatever it is now) of blackmail payments to Ukraine to keep them from spilling the beans on US admin corruption, that's no problem??

I suspect that somebody realized the satellite would end up providing data showing that Global Warming, Climate Change, and the rest is a pile of poo. So they had to kill it.

[Entrepreneur]

I suspect that somebody realized the satellite would end up providing data showing that Global Warming, Climate Change, and the rest is a pile of poo. So they had to kill it.

That's exactly it. Better to rely on measuring stations located near heat sources and then "adjust" other stations' temperature records higher.

[rlmorel]

That was 100% my first impression.

And I think it is correct.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

I suspect that somebody realized the satellite would end up providing data showing that Global Warming, Climate Change, and the rest is a pile of poo. So they had to kill it.

Nailed it!

We have had satellite systems up since the 1970s that globally and accurately measure temperature, sea surface height, solar irradiance, and the earth’s black body radiation.

The raw data from these accurate and precise systems do not support anthropogenic Climate Change. Therefore the government has resorted to “adjusting” the data to “prove” that Climate Change is “real.” The torturing of the actual data has gotten so bad, that they now have to go back to their “adjustments” of previous years of data and “further refine” them to maintain their lies.