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

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

[nearl4511]

Yes, we know.

Everything is too costly except for corporate welfare and endless war.

CBS. Please, Don't bother us with non-news articles like this one. This is not news. It is meaningless, without any reference in cost of other "important" things.

[ubrew12]

With a greater emphasis on competition in contract awarding, climate satellites could be brought down in price, maybe by 20-40%. That was something the Clinton Admin would have done (and tried to do with defense contractors). But for Bush the Defense Dept gets whatever it wants (and produces it poorly) and everyone else passes the hat. Gov't CAN encourage greater competition among contractors, but you need an administration that actually believes gov't can accomplish anything at all, and that is not this administration.

Hiring GW Bush to head the gov't is like hiring a stock analyst who thinks the stock market is all baloney. What a great gig: he congratulates himself and is rewarded by his employers the more incompetently he does his job...

[cdfoxtrot]

Iraq: 2-3 billion dollars a week? No problem.
Saving the planet by gathering data that might be helpful: The equivalent of a month or two of Iraq. Too expensive.
I think Bush and his cronies have just proven Darwin's theory.

[jimfinster]

they finally found the missing link!

...in the White House.
Posted by billpl at 08:03 PM : Jun 04, 2007

Well, that is pretty charitable. Have you been to bushorchimp.com?

[ammianus]

The Sorrows of Young Dumus, Art. XIII
Direction of the Hegemon%u2019s space policy was assumed by Imbustus Vulturinus, who convened a secret group of five Oligarchs of the religious-totalitarian movement. Bereft of any knowledge of science, these persons were recommended by their large financial contributions to the imperial clique and their fanatical opinions on the use of space to subjugate all the nations of Earth. This group was convened on an irregular schedule to compose recommendations on particular space policy issues. Vulturinus then proceeded to implement their recommendations. Vulturinus%u2019 orders flowed to an oversight board in the Office of Management and Budget and thence to the Administrator of the Hegemon%u2019s space agency. Michael Griffin attained his position by swearing absolute fealty to Vulturinus and the totalitarian faction of the legislature. The ultimate object of the space policy oligarchs was to turn the Earth and the solar system outside Earth into one vast prison. More immediately, scientific inquiries into matters threatening the propaganda of the Oligarchy, such as global climate change, were quietly starved. Likewise, the search for life outside the Earth was terminated. Such discoveries would conflict with the teachings of the religious totalitarian clique supporting Dumas. Little did the Oligarchs suspect that by substituting blind superstition for reasoned inquiry, they would finally pull down their own house.

[billpl-2009]

too late to disprove Darwin

they finally found the missing link!

...in the White House.

[cozzicon]

"What a brilliant solution!

Don't like the data? Just quit collecting it. Then you can use all that money you saved for something REALLY important. For example, the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. Yeah!!

Posted by jimfinster at 07:41 PM : Jun 04, 2007"

It's not brilliant- it's the act of a sociopath.

A Mnemonic for anti-social persnolity disorder (A sociopath) is as follows:

* C - cannot follow law
* O - obligations ignored
* R - remorselessness
* R - recklessness
* U - underhandedness
* P - planning deficit
* T - temper

You be the judge.

[omega39-2009]

Oh yeah, more money for sound science like abstinence education and proving Darwin wrong through the promotion of Creationism.

[jimfinster]

What a brilliant solution!

Don't like the data? Just quit collecting it. Then you can use all that money you saved for something REALLY important. For example, the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. Yeah!!

[hypnotoad72]

How do the Europeans think of us borrowing their data?

Though I'll agree, why reinvent the wheel?

[cozzicon]

Someone somewhere get George Bush out of office. Impeach him, vote him out- who cares.... just end the madness.

This is power misused for ideological purposes.

I'm ashamed of my government. What decent government de-funds scientists because they don't like what the scientists say?

No decent government does this.

[martene1]

Thanks Susan!!!! I think you wrote my email for me.

[susanhelit]

If those dang inconvenient scientists won't stop proving global warming exists and is serious, I'm just going to have to hide the evidence! Goldingit, what's more important around here - making money, or the survival of the human species after I'm out of office? Duh!
- George W Bush.