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GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites | One scientist says it's like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.
It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity. A separate paper published earlier this year in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres showed how scientists pinned down carbon emissions coming from even smaller point sources, such as a coal-fired power plant in Montana and oil sand processing facilities in Canada. "This decision would ... wipe out years of research that helps us understand greenhouse gas emissions, plant health, and the forces that are driving climate change," Elrich said in a press conference last month.
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