Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on 'politicised science'

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Beniboybling
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research
facepalm

Surtur
Where's that little smile you had before?

Beniboybling
Certain kinds of stupidity aren't particularly funny, yours for example.

Silent Master
Do you consider the stupidity of Hillary supporters to be funny?

Henry_Pym
To be fair there is a lot of evidence of the left sensationalizing climate research. I think it's laugh that you are trying to suggest he is censoring climate research.

Beniboybling
I'm not suggesting anything lol. These are the words of his senior adviser. erm

Originally posted by Silent Master
Do you consider the stupidity of Hillary supporters to be funny? Wow, what's that got to do with the OP?

Henry_Pym
Yes, and you wrote the Op to not mention why he is not funding it? We get it, you don't like him.

Beniboybling
Because its a decision that could have disastrous implications, yeah. You don't consider this worth discussing?

Silent Master
Originally posted by Beniboybling
I'm not suggesting anything lol. These are the words of his senior adviser. erm

Wow, what's that got to do with the OP?

I was asking a follow up question about your comment.

Surtur
If the left has really been sensationalizing evidence of this..that is messed up.

Am I in favor of Trump not doing this research and looking into space stuff? Not really. Let's take care of the shit on this planet before we go and ruin someone elses.

Flyattractor
Obama made Nasa a Joke. Scrap the whole thing I say.

Surtur
NASA can be shockingly inept at times. The Penn and Teller Bullshit episode about them kinda..makes them look bad.

Nephthys
Who even knows what Trump's going to do. The man flip-flops more than a beach.

Flyattractor
Glenn Beck knew...He called all this shit months ago.

And I like Trumps Unpredictability. Makes him way more fun then Dry, Dull Old Boring Hilldawg would have been.

Rage.Of.Olympus
No matter which candidate you voted for, we all live on the same planet (Although after doing some research, a sizeable portion of your population belongs in Narnia). If he wants to be more critical of climate change research, that's fine, but trying to crack down and remove funding for the field from NASA should worry even the dumbest of Americans. Thankfully as time passes, the United States continues to fall further behind the rest of us and after the idiocy of the 2016 Election, I hope the modern world relies less on the United States to lead on such issues.

Surtur
Yeah, but Narnia has talking lions.

Flyattractor
I agree with ROO boy/gal/it. I like the idea of the rest of the world depending on the U.S less and less. Let them put their hands out for money from someone else for a change.

Lord Lucien

cdtm
Originally posted by Beniboybling
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research
facepalm

This only affect's nasa, right?

Asking, because I don't know how the "division of labor" works in climate research, and want to know if the "non Nasa' sources can pick up the slack (Or perhaps, if non Nasa source's have a bigger impact overall.)

How important are they compared to all the private/university research?

Are there alternative's to Nasa's satelite's? Or would do other parties just use Nasa's web, and pay them for it or something?

Beniboybling
Well I'm no expert but my understanding is the NASA is a leading researcher in the field, and has made various breakthroughs regarding it, it's also only logical that there equipment and resources would be much greater than that of any private research group or university, not just anyone has access to space tech, or the expertise to handle it.

Also some expert comments from the article:
I'm also not convinced Trump's team have a clue regarding how other researchers could pick up the slack. They seem pretty clueless on the subject in general.

Astner
Can't keep wasting money researching a Chinese hoax. http://i.imgur.com/02R5yhw.png

jaden101
If he's defunding politicised science does that mean no more money for military R+D?

|King Joker|
Lmfao, this keeps getting better and better.

Surtur

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