Comments on: U.S. Says Climate Satellites Too Costly

United States Is Cutting Back On Efforts To Monitor Global Warming From Space

[coffeehead-2009]

30 billion for condoms but this is too costly for him? lmao

[nonameabc]

oh...yea... we have $ for the war...

[gil3al]

these are the types of things that happen when a nation is too far in debt. How many other projects will we not be able to afford? Yet congress and the administration continue to ignore the fiscal health of the country. Spend, spend, spend and the devil take tomorrow.

[ubrew12]

Typically, they spend twice as much on these gov't satellites as the estimate, and it lasts twice as long.

Global heating is a no brainer: interrupt infrared radiation on its voyage out of the planet without changing incoming visible radiation, and the planet's going to heat up - first law of thermodynamics. There are 2 ways something can heat, it can warm and it can change phase (ice-water or water-vapor). The warming part isn't what has everyone freaked, its the changing phase part, cuz that's what drives climate patterns, and ocean circulation patterns and levels. At the very least, if you like the weather you've been having, kiss it goodbye. But it could get better for you locally. It's just a huge, unnatural experiment which, for some people, will likely be disastrous.

[factchecker]

Global warming is happening. That's the way it is on this planet. If you refuse to believe this, you are free to get on the next rocket ship and leave. Until then, please be quiet. We're trying to figure out how to fix your mess. And while you're at it, quit driving that giant truck. No one thinks you're cool, okay? We just think you're an ******.

[incog-nito]

Yes, Islamism is a grave and mortal danger to us all, and we should all be very, very concerned. So let's forget about all this healthcare crisis and global warning nonsense, and use every resource to combat this grave and mortal danger. By the way, did I mention that it's a grave and mortal danger, and we should all be very, very concerned? Oh yes.

So what should you as ordinary citizen do to help fight this grave and mortal danger? Well, nothing. Just continue about your daily life, go shopping, especially for one of those great big SUVs. We need to show those Middle-Easterners that we're rich enough to continue to buy their oil, and willing to pay through the roof for it, too. Oh, and don't forget to get one of those cute "Support our Troops" magnets for your SUV. The troops in Iraq really appreciate that.

[pixelslinger]

Yes, because I'm definately going to take my entire degree in meteorology and climatology, not to mention over 6900 peer-reviewed scientific journal entries, over the word of a Google video. It's 'popular media', as you say, that is accounting for discrediting of information we've had for decades.

Being purpofully ignorant of overwhelming evidence is a choice, not a right.

[annd2302]

Ok, Hilliary,

What say you on this issue?

Or would you rather just wait and see if we can get a cheaper one? Waste not, want not, you will have to make those quick and decisive decisions.

You do know if you have any problems in the decision making arena, just roll over and ask Bill what he would do. Now, if you should roll over and find him pre-occupied with that petite French naked maid, just give him a few seconds and then he can let you have your turn.

Then, when he tells you what to do then by all means DO IT, he has been the smartest we have had in many many moons Hillary, it is all about taking care of business when it rises, if you had, Monica would not of been there, where every good wife should be. Truth hurts, so be it. Suck it up ! ! !

I vote you will say the %u201CCHEAPER ONE%u201D

How about you Mr & Mrs Public?????

[pixelslinger]

S_Temper - to answer your question directly: Congress may hold the strings, but the Administration has set the policy. Aside from that, there's the whole Veto power.

No matter how you attempt to explain away this Administrations staunch anti-environmentalism regime, the blunt, blatant, UNDENIABLE fact of the matter is that under Bush and the GOP, every suggestion, report, and request for action in this topic has been forcefully resisted.

You don't like the cost of the programs? Neither do I. But here's what I like a lot less: the fact that programs like this were allowed to become necessary in the first place.

[incog-nito]

To S. Temper:

Boo!

[ubrew12]

"The program has been a black hole, into which $12 billion has been dumped." Posted by S_Temper at 12:56 AM : Jun 05, 2007

They always run over budget cuz the gov't doesn't police them adequately once they've won the contract. But notice that the program is going through, only the 'climate' related payload items are being taken off, while the 'weather-prediction' items stay on. That smacks of a cover-up since the scientific payloads aren't that different for either aspect. I think Bush and his handlers just don't want the data. Total Global Warming rip-off.

[incog-nito]

We can't afford these satellites! We need every penney for the war in Iraq. The defense contractors are expecting another record-breaking quarter, and we don't want to let them down, do we?

[brianbwb-2009]

To S_Temper, how about Northrup-Grummond, Raytheon, and Bechtel? This is not a partisan issue, it is simply insane that 35b PER MONTH is ok for an illegal war, but 12b is too much for future generations to have data they will need to deal with the mess we leave them.

It would be equally insane under any partisan government. Please keep the irrelevant and pointless partisan rhetoric to yourself, and join the solution, your kids (assuming you have them) and possibly yourself in your all too soon to come senior years will be the ones suffering. This is not off in the future, it is happening now.

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush once hoped to pass himself off as the "science president", promoting a manned Mars mission when he needed to distract the public from his NSA spying scandal.

Now, from all appearances, Bush is still frozen in denial about global warming, though his speechwriters struggle to make it appear Bush agrees there is a problem with greenhouse emissions.

Clearly, Bush is no friend of science or exploration at all-- especially when he might address rationally something Bush finds an "inconvenient truth". Bush even deleted portions of governmental research recognizing global warming-- and warned US scientists not to cross the political taboo again.

The real problem Bush and some of the GOP have with global warming is not its existence, but its cost. For Bush and some of the GOP, money is the only issue, not science, because global warming redress threatens a principal GOP cash cow-- the oil industry.

[sparks224]

I wonder what it will cost us to NOT have those satellites up there?

[brianbwb-2009]

Or better still; "JAIL ALL THOSE WITH GEORGIE B., DUMBEST FOX IN HISTORY!"

[brianbwb-2009]

Heres' the slogan; "JAIL 'EM ALL, OR ELSE WE FALL!"

[brianbwb-2009]

Hey everyone, in the current administration we have a treasonous war criminal, who has proven over and again that he doesn't care for law, or humanity, we all know this already.

Isn't it time to quit complaining passively and take it to the streets, or do we wait until the patient is dead, and then talk about what medicine we should have given?

[dcp32]

Just when you believe you've seen this administration corrupt nearly everything they possibly can, they find something else of significance to ruin. Will America have the resolve for the election of the successive administrations it is going to take to undo the damage of King George and his friend ***???

[imnho]

This idea is about as crazy as they come. This will come back to bite us both in emergency mangement and the defense of the nation. This is truly nuts to think if you stop collecting data that the problems associated will some how go away

The white house has now a Alice-in-wonderland six impossible things before brekfast attitude