Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 6:59 PM EDT, August 6, 2025


The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially shutting off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers. President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2026 includes no money for the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, which can precisely show where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed and how well crops are growing.

NASA said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the missions were “beyond their prime mission” and being terminated “to align with the President’s agenda and budget priorities.”

But the missions — a free-flying satellite launched in 2014 and an instrument attached to the International Space Station in 2019 that include technology used in the Hubble Space Telescope — still are more sensitive and accurate than any other systems in the world, operating or planned, and a “national asset” that should be saved, said David Crisp, a retired NASA scientist who led their development.

They helped scientists discover, for example, that the Amazon rain forest emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, while boreal forests in Canada, Russia and places where permafrost is melting absorb more than they emit, Crisp said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-nasa-climate-satellites-34f533a1d28db954e30b2101d0ae186c

[Walleye]

1. This has nothing to do with budget priorities and everybody knows it. They keep repeating lies.

[groundloop]

2. tRump has great powers.......

He can end pandemics by eliminating testing.

He can change the path of a hurricane with a sharpie.

And now he can fix the climate by doing away with data gathering.

IS HE DEAD YET?

[twodogsbarking]

3. Insects will take over eventually. You won't see the sky. Bye.

[GreenWave]

4. He wants to make the rest of us just as stupid and ill-informed as he is.

[republianmushroom]

5. It figures.

[thought crime]

6. On the other hand, the nuclear reactor on the moon will have zero emissions.

But I would still prefer Windmills.