silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months agoTwo Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped. | The Trump administration wants to switch off and possibly destroy the climate-monitoring technology.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down11
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minus-squareTarquinn2049@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoLike, humans knew about global warming, and even the man-made aspect, long before we even had satellites… getting rid of the satellites doesn’t even impact how much proof we have…
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoWhat it does is get rid of our ability to localize who is using the atmosphere as a sewer
minus-squareTarquinn2049@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThat’s fair, there are other methods, but they are slower and lower “resolution”. That is probably the angle.
Like, humans knew about global warming, and even the man-made aspect, long before we even had satellites… getting rid of the satellites doesn’t even impact how much proof we have…
What it does is get rid of our ability to localize who is using the atmosphere as a sewer
That’s fair, there are other methods, but they are slower and lower “resolution”. That is probably the angle.