https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
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One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

Worse yet, the two observatories had been expected to function for many more years, scientists working on them told NPR. A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."
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The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.

Former NASA employee David Crisp, who worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatories' instruments, told NPR that current staffers reached out to him.

"They were asking me very sharp questions," he said. "The only thing that would have motivated those questions was [that] somebody told them to come up with a termination plan."

Crisp said it "makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data," pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency's $25.4 billion budget.

The two observatories are only two of dozens of space missions facing existential threats in the form of the Trump administration's proposed 2026 fiscal year budget. Countless scientists have been outraged by the proposal, arguing it could precipitate an end to the United States' leadership in space.

Lawmakers have since drawn up a counteroffer that would keep NASA's budget roughly in line with this year's.

"We rejected cuts that would have devastated NASA science by 47 percent and would have terminated 55 operating and planned missions," said senator and top appropriator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in a July statement, as quoted by Bloomberg.

"Eliminating funds or scaling down the operations of Earth-observing satellites would be catastrophic and would severely impair our ability to forecast, manage, and respond to severe weather and climate disasters," House representative and Committee on Science, Space and Technology ranking member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) told NPR.

"The Trump administration is forcing the proposed cuts in its FY26 budget request on already appropriated FY25 funds," she added. "This is illegal."

This has got to be the most anti-science administration ever in American history.
>Lawmakers have since drawn up a counteroffer that would keep NASA's budget roughly in line with this year's.
it's very telling that even the GOP congressmen think these cuts are over the line.

>>1424770 (OP)
>The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions
Hey Trump, you could always ask SpaceX to build a EMP weapon satellite similar to the eponymous one in the Bond movie GoldenEye and launch it using Starship, position it near that NASA satellite and take it out yourself with Musk's help.
Oh wait and in more ways than one

>>1424780
>This has got to be the most anti-science administration ever in American history.
>from the same people who routinely tell us a man can become a woman

>>1424789
men can become trans women

>>1424789
get a real job

>>1424789
>the leftist bots on twitter are the same people as politicians in charge
Kek you actually do believe this, huh?

>>1424801
congress is so fucking cucked. trump should already have been impeached months ago for this withholding funding shit.

>>1424802
They kicked out their previous Speaker of the House( (Kevin McCarthy) who told them to stop being whining babies and installed a christian nationalist (Nike Johnson) who thinks Jesus told him to support Trump, remember? Trump could have a 1% approval rating but Mike would still block any impeachment vote.

>>1424807
yes. scotus is no better, john roberts is such a partisan worm.

>>1424807
The party's entirely captured by Trump, not just the Speaker.

>>1424780
This is the end stage of America's long trend of anti-intellectualism. An administration of idiots who think they're really smart and hate actually smart people for pointing out that they're not. It was predictable, but is still pretty unbelievable.

>>1424770 (OP)
>climate change-focused satellite missions.
tRump heard "climate change satellite missions" and thought that these satellites were going to be used to change the climate back to normal.

>>1424789
And yet with the power of science they made it possible. Meanwhile your technologically illiterate hick ass is going to get raped by extreme weather events that aren't being predicted because SOMEONE removed the prediction system.

>>1424923
Oh, don't forget also firing 550 people under the guise of efficiency, then being forced to hire 450 people because they actually needed those guys. So not only did they have to pay those guys severance, but they then lost a ton of experienced people to train any new ones, who are also likely gonna ask for bigger salaries due to the position being unstable.

Climate change has nothing to do with science. It's a cult that everyone on both political sides is sick of

>>1424931
>Just ignore the directly measurable human impact we have on our climate and it's basically not a thing

>>1424923
>And yet with the power of science they made it possible.
>leftists still believe this
You will never be a woman. The man in drag who may or may not have chopped off his bits will never be a woman. He will always be a man in drag pretending to be a woman. The power of science has not changed this.

Now keep going on about the most anti-science administration ever. I enjoy your hypocrisy.

>>1424936
your fetish has nothing to do with this thread, and the world would objectively be better off without you and the rest of your shill ilk

>>1424789
>b-but the trannies!!
Get new material.

>>1424932
Well we'll just stop measuring it. And actually destroy the things we were using to measure it. That'll stop it!
Please ignore that climate change has gotten SO FUCKING BAD that you can see it happening with the naked eye

I knee democrats weren't serious about climate change when they allowed Tesla to sell fixing regulatory credits to other companies for profit. Just make up a fake credit system and then allow them to be bought and sold for profit. That and Bitcoin were the only reasons that Tesla was able to get listed in the s&p500. This was back when Elon was a Democrat grifter btw

>>1424939
>Get new material.
Okay.

>lease ignore that climate change has gotten SO FUCKING BAD that you can see it happening with the naked eye
And yet that doesn't stop you from burning teslas, or any of the over 10,000 arsons in 2020. Tell me, how does throwing molotovs and burning down minority-owned business help to fight climate change?

Come on, you're the pro-science administration. Explain this.

>>1424943
you'll never be a billionaire, shill. stop simping for them and get a real job

Yeah, I don't get this. If you want to prove that climate change isn't real, then what you want is a bunch of satellites and other data to prove your point. You would only get rid of those things if you know you are wrong and don't want anyone else proving it.

Oh wait ...

>>1424943
>Uh, if climate change real, why people set fire?

>>1424943
interesting you know so much about anon people doing arson. its that or you're implying aka lying.

>>1424943
The random people burning teslas and starting fires are not part of any administration, you fucking retard. That is that, this is this.
And you're bringing up this arson just as generic political shit-flinging, right? There's no way you're citing that as a contributor to climate change. That's too stupid to be believable.

>>1424883
America was founded by intellectuals and will end with their mass execution.

We really fell off.

>>1424973
You gotta treat their hallucinations as reality or else they'll have a melty

>>1424770 (OP)
>The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions
So will you instruct Tesla to only build cars with internal combustion engines, Trump? If not, your hypocrisy's showing. Especially in buying that Tesla outside the White House recently

>>1424770 (OP)
Thanks for nothing, Trump.

>>1424955
And you'll never be a woman, faggot.

>>1424970
>I care about the climate!
>So much that I'm burning all types of metal, lithium, etc. in celebration!

>>1424973
>the BLM riots didn't happen
More delusion from the not-anti-science group. Keep it up.

>>1424975
>The random people burning teslas and starting fires are not part of any administration, you fucking retard.
1) the administration helped and enabled many of those rioters
and
2) So fucking what? You can't say you're worried about the climate in one breath and then burn down a bar owned by a black man the second.

That's called hypocrisy. I know, an alien concept to democrats.

>There's no way you're citing that as a contributor to climate change.
I just did, faggot. You subhumans have rioted over Trump since 2015. Was it really necessary to start a fire at almost every single "fiery but peaceful protest"? Best case scenario you could say your actions were too small to have much of an impact... still not helping the environment much. Kinda undoes all those years of "progress" driving a Prius around and using paper straws.

esl shill posted in his diary again

This board is so goddamn shit it's unreal. Anyways, yeah thanks Uncle Sam, now all the money spent on those sattellites was LITERALLY for nothing. The money's already gone you dumb niggers. T

>>1425005
This is so fucking stupid it has to be bait. I really, truly hope you're being paid for this.

>>1425016
>NOOOO ONLY WE'RE ALLOWED TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1425017
you're fucking retarded and you should feel bad

>>1425018
>I can't counter-argue anything except to say DURR UR DUM
I accept your concession.

>>1425024
i see you've internalized my ridicule. good for you faggot. i'll enjoy living rent free in your head

Sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la la la i can't hear you" is the conservative way.

>>1425005
>I just did, faggot.
Then god damn, you're really fucking stupid. And delusional, but I think we knew that already.

>>1424938
I believe you replied to the wrong post

>>1425005
Why are you claiming protest fires are enough to make any difference on the global scale?

>>1424995
that isn't what Tesla does. Tesla is one of the shell companies that funnel government contract money to Elon and his friends.

>>1424967
Trump is pushing climate change to be faster because he wants Greenland to melt down quick so it can be mined

>>1424789
The whole LGBT/racism/feminism distraction always on full force

>>1425133
Great counter-argument.

>>1425140
When you're routinely burning buildings down and burning cars up, year after year because orange man makes you upset, that doesn't help the environment by any metric. Like I already called: "Best case scenario you could say your actions were too small to have much of an impact" which doesn't change that you're still having a negative impact while being a massive hypocrite.

>>1425144
If we're talking about imaginary worlds that don't have anything to do with reality, I would be pooping icecream and drinking whiskey straight from the springs.

Its weird that your imaginary world has hallucinatory democrats burning everything, maybe you should see a therapist about all this repressed anger and tranny lust

>>1425144
You're demonstrating that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. People like that don't get counter-arguments.

>>1425181
Okay hypocrite. Be sure to remember this conversation in the next global warming thread.

>>1425183
all we remember is that you're a faggot who warrants no respect

>>1425183
nta, but why? you'll melt down and make the same debunked schizo arguments like you always do.

>>1425186
>debunked

shills are a net negative to the world, maybe they should be sterilized

>dejunked