Funding Cut for Crucial Climate Data–UPDATE
The Bush Administration has decided to cancel NASA climate satellites crucial to our ability to understand climate change. By shelving critical programs such as the Deep Space Climate Observatory, the administration continues to do all it can to conceal the reality of climate change. Two missions that could have helped us to understand?and plan for?global warming have been cut. More than $200 million in future funding has been eliminated for satellite projects called The Deep Space Climate Observatory and The Global Precipitation Measurement mission, despite the fact that the Deep Space satellite has already been built?at a cost of $100 million.
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