The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

We can only speculate as to why the Trump administration wants to end the missions. But considering president Donald Trump’s staunch climate change denial and his administration’s efforts to deal the agency’s science directorate a potentially existential blow, it’s not difficult to speculate.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    Okay, see no evil, hear no evil, sure.

    I would hope that one of the scientists involved “accidentally” gives away the access codes to someone who locks out the US behind them.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      5·
      4 days ago

      A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they’d been providing had been “of exceptionally high quality.”

      Could also “accidentally” leak all the data, in case there are no non-US backups.