Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com)

dryriver quotes a report from The Guardian: Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by NASA as part of a crackdown on "politicized science," his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said. Nasa's Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century. This would mean the elimination of NASA's world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. [NASA's network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division's budget set to grow to $2 billion (PDF) next year. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8 billion in 2017.] Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said as Nasa provides the scientific community with new instruments and techniques, the elimination of Earth sciences would be "a major setback if not devastating." "It could put us back into the 'dark ages' of almost the pre-satellite era," he said. "It would be extremely short sighted."

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The fraud is (mostly) not coming from scientists. But politicians are politicians, and lie about everything all the time. Anything you've heard about climate change from a political group (any UN body, for example) is automatically a lie. Wait, I take that back - someone who lies 100% of the time is a reliable indicator of truth. Anything you've heard about climate change from a political group is no better than random guessing. And it's all about the money (because, again, politics).