![]() “It could put us back into the ‘dark ages’ of almost the pre-satellite era,” he said. 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”. Climate scientists at other organizations expressed dismay at the potential gutting of Earth-based research. It’s understood that federal government scientists have been unnerved by Trump’s dismissal of climate science and are concerned that their work will be sidelined as part of a new pro-fossil fuels and deregulation agenda. Space research is a luxury, Earth observations are essential Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research ![]() ![]() We need good science to tell us what the reality is and science could do that if politicians didn’t interfere with it.” It could put us back into the ‘dark ages’. Walker, however, claimed that doubt over the role of human activity in climate change “is a view shared by half the climatologists in the world. ‘No one’s an exception’: toll of climate change, from US to the Marshall Islands – video Guardian Mr Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science.” I believe that climate research is necessary but it has been heavily politicized, which has undermined a lot of the work that researchers have been doing. “My guess is that it would be difficult to stop all ongoing Nasa programs but future programs should definitely be placed with other agencies. “Earth-centric science is better placed at other agencies where it is their prime mission. “We see Nasa in an exploration role, in deep space research,” Walker told the Guardian. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017.īob Walker, a senior Trump campaign adviser, said there was no need for Nasa to do what he has previously described as “politically correct environmental monitoring”. Nasa’s network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division’s budget set to grow to $2bn next year. This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena.
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