NASA launches operation ‘OMG’ (Oceans Melting Greenland)

msnbc ^ | Aug. 12, 2015 | Tony Dokoupil

[PROCON]

Late last month, an alarming new study concluded that the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica will melt ten times faster than previous estimates, raising ocean levels 10 feet in as little as a half century. But is it accurate? NASA has launched an urgent, five-year, $30 million study that will help scientists find out.

The official “mission,” known as Oceans Melting Greenland—yes, this is operation OMG—is designed to help scientists determine the melt-rate with unprecedented accuracy. “I barely got that name by the censors,” admits Joshua Willis, an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the project’s principal investigator. “But OMG is kind of the perfect expression for this line of research.”

[MeshugeMikey]

ya think thats enough?? 50 million doesn’t buy the kind of stilted study it used to ya know.

[AFreeBird]

That would have been racist.

[RichInOC]

That’s almost as good as the administration (very briefly) adopting the motto “Winning The Future”. I’m sorry they didn’t hold onto that long enough to follow the Ford administration’s lead and put out “WTF” buttons.