{"id":6779,"date":"2016-11-23T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2016-11-23T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:20:22","slug":"two-steps-forward-five-steps-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/23\/two-steps-forward-five-steps-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Steps Forward, Five Steps Back &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/nov\/22\/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that, under a Trump Administration, <em><strong>NASA<\/strong><\/em> should never look back, only forward to outer space. That is, <em>no more climate monitoring<\/em> for <em><strong>NASA<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/nasa\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Nasa<\/a> as part of a crackdown on \u201cpoliticized science\u201d, his senior adviser [Bob Walker] on issues relating to the space agency has said.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa\u2019s <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/earth-science\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Earth science division<\/a> 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\u2019s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. Nasa\u2019s network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division\u2019s <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/atoms\/files\/fy_2017_budget_estimates.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">budget set to grow to $2bn<\/a> next year. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some sort of bureaucratic reshuffling to satisfy someone&#8217;s lust for orderliness? Nope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walker, however, claimed that doubt over the role of human activity in climate change \u201cis a view shared by half the climatologists in the world. We need good science to tell us what the reality is and science could do that if politicians didn\u2019t interfere with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, research published on <em><strong>Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/02\/26\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">indicated<\/a> that it&#8217;s somewhere in the realm of 97% concur, 3% do not. I expect <em><strong>Planetary Report<\/strong><\/em> is not going to be happy about this, although their Casey Dreier has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/casey-dreier\/2016\/1118-nasa-under-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">bracing<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian is reporting that, under a Trump Administration, NASA should never look back, only forward to outer space. That is, no more climate monitoring for NASA: Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on \u201cpoliticized science\u201d, his senior \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/23\/two-steps-forward-five-steps-back\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}