The Trump administration will remove ocean and air pollution monitoring instruments from the upcoming fleet of weather satellites, and cut the number of satellites, as well.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades …
And just like that, the US bows out of another scientific segment we could have been leaders in. It also would be cool if an asshole with a 4 year term wasn’t able to screw us all for generations so easily.
It should be an ostensibly useless diplomatic role and nothing more. We never adapted like the “founding fathers” expected us to and instead left America as a 250 year gentleman’s agreement.
And just like that, the US bows out of another scientific segment we could have been leaders in. It also would be cool if an asshole with a 4 year term wasn’t able to screw us all for generations so easily.
Executive branch needs a reboot. Too much riding on good faith, with the loopholes exposed. We need to fix it, or this just happens again.
It should be an ostensibly useless diplomatic role and nothing more. We never adapted like the “founding fathers” expected us to and instead left America as a 250 year gentleman’s agreement.
Not just the executive branch. The US is a century or longer overdue for a new constitution.
The current one is just stale 1700s philosophy and patches of very disparate quality.