GOP may succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
4 days ago
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- #climate change
- NASA's 23-year mission to track greenhouse gas emissions may end soon due to budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
- President Trump's budget request calls for terminating 41 of NASA's 124 science missions and cutting NASA's science funding by half.
- Congress may reject most of Trump's cuts, but the budget deadline is looming, and NASA has been directed to prepare for mission closures.
- The White House could implement cuts even without congressional approval, using tactics like 'pocket rescissions,' currently under legal challenge.
- Two missions monitoring carbon dioxide levels, costing over $750 million, face cancellation, saving only $16 million annually.
- A retired NASA scientist compared shutting down these missions to 'buying a car and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of a tank of gas.'