NASA ordered to destroy two climate change monitoring satelites:

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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.