Senate Cuts Global Warming Funds

The U.S. Senate passed legislation recently cutting funding for NASA’s global warming research.

The House is expected to pass the bill, and President Trump will most certainly sign it. Supporters say it “re-balances” NASA’s budget back toward space exploration and away from global warming and earth science research.  Republicans plan to end the more than $2 billion NASA spends on its Earth Science Mission Directorate.

“By rebalancing, I’d like for more funds to go into space exploration; we’re not going to zero out earth sciences,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, saying, “I’d like for us to remember what our priorities are, and there are another dozen agencies that study earth science and climate change, and they can continue to do that.”

NASA’s spending on earth and global warming science increased 63% over the last eight years, making it the largest and fastest growing budget of any NASA science program. The agency now spends more on environmental research than many of its other science functions, including astrophysics and space technology. Those programs only get $781.5 million and $826.7 million, respectively.

Let us not forget we have a "less than $10 demo-experiment" that confirms the role of CO2 in the atmosphere in a way that is obvious to everyone.  You can read it at CO2 IS INNOCENT, which really means "test" or "disprove."  We have sent it far and wide, to every member of Congress on the Joint Committee on Science of the House and Senate only to be ignored completely.  Apparently we must have a million-Dollar lobbyist to open the eyes of the stripped pants class.  In spite of our elected ruling class there is hope for America.

Adrian Vance