• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions.

    No. It’s really now. A big clue is right there in the last paragraph.

    They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.

    Trump firmly believes in the head-in-the-sand style of disaster preparation. Remember when he suggested that if we don’t do testing we won’t have as many positive Covid cases? This is the same thing. We won’t have to worry about global warming if we make sure we don’t do any testing that might notice it’s actually happening.