Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts.
The adage is especially relevant for climate-warming greenhouse gases, which are crucial to manage—and challenging to measure.
Now, President Donald Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS, Science has learned.
"If you cannot measure emissions reductions, you cannot be confident that countries are adhering to the agreement," she says.
The White House has mounted a broad attack on climate science, repeatedly proposing cuts to NASA's earth science budget, including the CMS, and cancellations of climate missions such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3).
Although Congress fended off the budget and mission cuts, a spending deal signed in March made no mention of the CMS.
And, unlike the satellites that provide the data, the research line had no private contractor to lobby for it. »