NASA ordered to destroy two climate change monitoring satelites:

[applegrove]

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T00:22:25.461Z

[EndlessWire]

1. Is this true??? n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Yes.

[wishstar]

22. True as NPR reported that WH has ordered NASA- link here:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened

"The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.

The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases."

[Bread and Circuses]

2. I'm dead serious. Is TACO and his enablers satan's puppets? .... Why destroy ...

Satellites that are already in orbit and working?

Unless you want disease, famine, suffering and gruesome death to feed your darkness?

* OK, I know I sound crazy. BUT, it’s more than just owning the Libs. This is apocalypsic level manipulation?

I welcome any and all equally bizarre speculations!

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Don't you know there's no such thing as climate change so

That’s why they’re going to destroy these satellites, what’s the value of the satellites hundreds of millions billions.

Either someone does something drastic very soon or we’re all fucked completely and I think we are anyway.

And to think how easy it would’ve been to avoid this in 2016😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[Bread and Circuses]

15. Indeed, we are in deep shite. #HillaryWasRightAboutEverything

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

14. The GOP theme for decades has been CHAOS...

... and it is not just a fictional organization from Get Smart! We can all see how they love their chaos with the current TACO tariff scams/rigging of the markets for personal gain.

[Kaleva]

25. That's going to happen even if the satellites are kept in operation

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The madness is never going to end

[Blues Heron]

4. Evil personified, what the fuck is wrong with this guy

[BadgerMom]

18. What the fuck is wrong with his enablers?

[LymphocyteLover]

24. Seriously-- this is sick evil fucking BS

[Deuxcents]

6. The data from these studies are shared with other researchers in the world so it is a great loss if it happens

[Figarosmom]

7. I do hope they refuse.

Or just don't do it and let him think they did.

[Captain Zero]

8. They should invite him somewhere to

Flip a switch and turn off the satellites.
And then explain how much the satellites cost to launch and maintain and now he's just pissing all that away.

[colorado_ufo]

11. Of course, how would they know?

Just turn off our access and let other countries use it - or sell the satellites to them!

Trump is always out to make a buck.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Keep your tiny grubby hands off of OUR satellites.

We, the U.S. taxpayers, paid for them, so you can fuck right off, you orange baboon.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Trump is destroying or stealing everything belonging to the American people.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. President Psychopath strikes again.

[calimary]

12. The more uninformed we are, the better the bad guys like it.

They think it’ll be easier to bullshit us if we’re ignorant.

Let’s NOT EVER give them what they want!!!

[mahina]

13. Just say you did it

How could he check?

[BlueSpot]

16. There are apps that track satellites and stuff in orbit

It's not just enough to turn it off and ignore the data. He has to blow it up.

Need I say more?

Every day I can't imagine my disdain for him could increase. And yet, every day it does.

[patphil]

17. These guys just keep on demonstrating how idiotic they are.

These satellites are very valuable. Destroying them is ridiculous. Just shut down the group that acquires and analyses the data they provide. Essentially, take them off line. Same result, but they can be brought back if the government climate changes.

The dumb fuckery of the Trump administration is beyond comprehension.

[Botany]

19. "They" want to kill us. End of story. Yesterday afternoon I was watching the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in ...

…. Central Ohio. Those fires are a result of global warming because of CO 2 build up and now I read this shit?

[Emile]

21. 70% of Republicans don't believe in global climate change.

[Nictuku]

23. NASA should tell him it is Done (but not really)

they will never know

[lapfog_1]

27. I was the person at NASA that stored the data from these remote sensing platforms

most likely from the previous generation.

I mean I was the person that did this... my contribution to NASA and global climate change. I led the team that created the storage system. You can still find the papers I authored about it on the web.

The program to fly these platforms and collect the data was mired for over a year by a $500M contract that Lockheed had that was not making progress... Al Gore ( VP - and in charge of NASA ) became very irate because NASA was wasting millions of dollars keeping the satellites in clean rooms instead of launching them because the data storage program was late. I had built a unique storage system for simulation data ( Aerodynamics you know... much harder than rocket science ). So my Center director named me to attend the Review Board headed up by VP Gore.

While there ( along with my branch chief and center director ), I volunteered that the system I built ( thanks taxpayers ) could handle the enormous amount of data that would be coming with the new platforms collection CO2, ice data, sea temperatures, etc and perform as a central collection spot for all the EOS ( Earth Observation System ) data collected by the DAO or Data Acquisition Office. We would collect and store the raw telemetry data and then send T1 data ( corrected for instrument variation - like if the sensor was in sunlight or not, etc ) to various universities and research centers around the country ( EOSDIS or Earth Observation System - Distributed Information Systems ).

With the approval by VP Gore and the NASA administration the Lockheed contract was canceled, I got some more of your tax dollars to spend ( $10M a year ) and the platforms were put into orbit... and we collected lots and lots of climate data ( PetaBytes... this back in the 1990s when a PB was just a whole lot of data to store ).

Now I am watching heart broken over this anti-science idiot in the White House is actively deciding to not just ignore the data, but to destroy the collection of the data. This is EXACTLY what he tried to do with Covid-19 ( if we don't TEST people for Covid we won't have reports of people with Covid! ).

Of course, we didn't do enough to stop climate change in the 30 years of data that was collected and analyzed and the threat recognized by the world's scientists... despite the fossil fuel industry efforts to either dismiss the data, undermine the analysis, or to ascribe the climate change to "something other than oil and gas".

Oh well... this really breaks my heart to see the one thing I was most proud of doing in my life thrown away by imbeciles.

I can't imagine how Al Gore feels today.

[Botany]

28. Thanx for posting and thanx for your work.

I am sitting about 2 miles from Ohio State U’s institute of Polar Studies that literally has millions of data
points from glacier ice cores that show links between CO 2 and the climate and still people deny the reality
of the facts for political reasons. Btw the smoke from the Canadian wildfires has been in our skies for about
a week now.

The earth will always be here* but humans don’t have to be here too.

* Except when the sun becomes a red giant.

[-misanthroptimist]

29. Yet another Impeachable Act by Whiny Don

Does the Moron of the Oval Office (MOO) actually think that this ends Climate Change? Can he be that stupid?!

What am I saying? Of course he's that stupid.