Ever since George Bush's prohibition against NASA from undertaking any scientific research that might potentially bolster the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming ended when Republicans left office in 2009, NASA has launched a number of satellites to study the effects of Global Warming. Those satellites have provided a wealth of powerful evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming much to the consternation of the denialist charlatans, and the GOP's Big Oil donors who pay to propagate the fraudulent narratives featured in the Right's partisan media.
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Now the Republican chair of the House Space Subcommitte Steven Palazzo (Mississippi), and full committee chair Lamar Smith (Texas) have told NASA to scale back their study of the Earth and to concentrate more on "space exploration".
“There are 13 other agencies involved in climate change research, but only one that is responsible for space exploration. The administration continues to starve NASA’s exploration programs to fund a partisan environmental agenda. NASA simply deserves better.”
In the last eight years, the Obama administration has increased funding for the Earth Science Division by more than 63 percent, while consistently cutting funding for human space exploration programs.
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Republican denialists want to prod NASA back into the scientific blinders it was operating under in the bad old George W. Bush days.