NASA has sold it's soul over Global warming. something like 40% of NASA’s budget is AGW related.
One reason our space program is so screwed up is because NASA allocated astronomical resources to precise weather monitoring satellites and terrestrial sensor systems to to demonstrate and validate AGW theories and computer climate models.
This has drained resources from other space programs that have more useful and productive applications like low cost, reusable vehicle to send people and payloads into space
Unfortunately for the AGW fanatics in NASA and around the world, these sensor systems intended to “prove Globale Warming” have done the exact opposite and have basically provided high quality, hard data that directly refutes, contradicts and disproves AGW.
NASA actually manipulated the calibrations on some of these sensors to alter the data to make it more compatible with their AGW theories and analytic models. They had to back peddle the results when they got caught cheating.
The biggest hit so far is a satellite that shows that the NASA and other AGW proponents have used totally incorrect assumptions about the emissivity of the Earth and how much solar energy the earth radiates into space.
Put the new, ≈satellite measured emissivity equations and constants measured by NASA’s truly awesome satellite into NASA’s own AGW analytic models and using real experimentally measured, verified and validated energy balance numbers instead of values "estimated and assumed" by agenda driven AGW research funding hungry proponents and NASA Computer Models stop predicting AGW
I find this ironic. NASA's crown jewels in their Global Warming research programs to "prove once and for all" AGW do exactly the opposite and disprove AGW, With actual NASA measured, real world data, NASa's own computer models show no man made Global Warming
They were set up to measure warming or cooling - the “manmade” component is pure conjecture.
And for a long time now atmospheric measures have showed cooling, while ground based measures have showed warming (once you select which ground based measuring stations you want to continue using - i.e. those that show warming * the “trick” used to “hide the decline”).
A rather brilliant Nobel Prize winning scientists proposed in a lecture I attended over a decade ago that the ground based measure showed warming almost entirely at night rather than the day. He proposed that this was an “urban heat island” effect - which you would see keeping temperatures warm during the night - rather than a “greenhouse” effect - which would be observed during the day.