The is so much evidence in support of AGW now that it doesn't matter if you refuse to believe in it, Nature doesn't care if you choose to believe in it or not. It's happening anyway! It's no longer a debatable question.
The ethos of science: If you have no evidence to back up your claims. If your experiment isn't repeatable. If you don't publish in a respected Journal. Your idea might as well not exist!
**Here come the downvotes**
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say: Yes
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James say: Clearly he didn't, and remote sensing of the Earth is an extremely important function of NASA.
It is where we live, after all.
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MIKE L say: Yes
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lowlevel say: No. He killed it because the GOP spent all of the money fighting two pointless boots-on-ground wars in the Middle East.
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Elwood Blues say: Wrong! George W. Bush killed space exploration.
Here's how he did it. Bush ordered NASA to send men to Mars, but failed to fund any Mars trip. This meant NASA had to divert money from robotic space exploration to Mars "planning."
An actual Mars mission costs hundreds of billions of dollars, so it's hard to imagine how we get from giant budget deficits to enough surplus to afford Mars. Translation: Mars planning is a waste because we will never ever go there with current technology, and we can't plan until we understand whatever new technology might make it feasible.
To add to the idiocy, Trump has mentioned using the Moon as a "stepping stone" to Mars. Why is that idiotic? Due to the lack of an atmosphere parachutes are useless on the moon, so any moon landing craft needs to carry enough fuel to decelerate on the moon's surface. That means the same craft has to boost all that fuel off the Earth's surface.
Every pound of material boosted into LEO requires about 10 pounds of fuel, so the economics of stopping on the Moon are nothing more than an interesting way to waste of fuel.
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