If you want to actually try and do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too
Shades of “we’re going to stop testing for COVID and then it won’t be a problem anymore.”
I’d say that it’s even worse than that. The observatory has already gathered evidence, and by cutting funding Trump is punishing the scientists and sending a message to others that looking for evidence of climate change is the surest way to kill your job.
Ironically this will make the indigenous activists happy. I’m pretty sure he didn’t intend that though.
They’re not doing anything like dismantling the telescopes; just stopping a tiny instrument that is mounted near them from being used.
Ah I see.
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.
It’s pretty much too late, and already halfway through 2025, but CNN is reporting straight up that climate change is (a) real, true, verifiable and (b) caused by humans.
Thanks CNN. I guess.