Continued surveillance of the earth is the only way mankind
can track climate change and its impact on the living systems that sustain our
lives. Now the astoundingly ignorant
demagogue and President-elect, Donald Trump, wants to end NASA’s vital program
of climate change research.
The threat to humanity
Robert Walker, a lobbyist appointed by Trump to lead the
NASA transition for the new administration, has said there was no need for NASA
to do missions that he previously called “politically correct environmental
monitoring”. Walker, who was the
chair of aerospace research under George Bush, said the “interference” of
politicians in climate change research was preventing scientists from
discovering the “reality” about climate change.
Now the political
hacks define “reality”
Walker is blatantly illogical and prejudicial. This lobbying hack has decided a priori that he already knows the
“reality” about climate change, meaning that he is trying to peddle preconceived notions. How misleading and
pernicious of him to accuse scientists of hiding “reality” when their data and
methods are public knowledge. Scientific
data are public knowledge that anyone can review and interpret. If someone wants to disagree about global
warming, all he needs to do is publish a paper with the relevant data,
analysis, and conclusions. The reality
is there for all to see.
Walker is an ignorant
liar with no credibility
How can “monitoring” be “politically correct”? Monitoring means observing and measuring. Observing a system is the first step in
understanding that system and what makes it tick. It is a part of the scientific method, which
Walker obviously does not understand. He
is shockingly ignorant and malicious. Is this responsible governing? Walker is a self-contradictory
propagandist like his boss Trump. This
crawling creep places ideology over truth, and will drive America to climate
hell.
Trump has fevered dreams
of grandiosity
Trump wants manned exploration of space at the expense of
understanding planet earth. Such are the
fevered dreams of an infantile,
narcissistic demagogue. Trump would
substitute grandiose dreams of space exploration for the practical
understanding of planet earth -- understanding that “enables us to live better
lives and actually save lives.” "While deep space exploration enables us
to have big dreams, understanding planet earth enables us to live better lives
and actually save lives," Malte Meinshausen, director of the Climate &
Energy College at Melbourne University, told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and the head of NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, believes that Trump won't be able to fulfill
his promise to make such drastic cuts. The federal bureaucracy's size and
complexity makes it impossible to change course so swiftly and radically,
Schmidt argues.
Trump sacrifices the safety
and security of America
The same NASA systems that enable climate research also
enable weather forecasting and detection of environmental hazards. Trump cannot eliminate NASA climate research
without also eliminating weather observation and environmental hazard
detection.
Ongoing operations of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
Corps, and Coast Guard depend on awareness of the immediate environment, and planning
future forces and operations of the uniformed services requires an
understanding of probable future climates and their impact on human
activities. The US military already
incorporates anthropogenic climate change into its planning for the future.
His attack on NASA earth science is just another way Trump
has shown that he does not care about the loyal Americans who serve in the
military. Narcissistic egotists are like that. After all, Trump refuses to refer to American
POWs as “heroes”. He only likes winners.
Trump sacrifices the climate
refugees of the future
Humanitarian relief and peace enforcement are two of the main
missions of the US military, which is one of the first organizations called on
to respond to humanitarian disasters around the world. As cities sink beneath the waves, as deserts
replace croplands, as millions of refugees surge across national borders – how
prepared will we be? And of course, the
US is not immune to the human impact of continued anthropogenic climate change.
Trump is sacrificing the lives of the afflicted people who
will need our help in the future, both here at home and around the world.
The world is laughing
at us
Now that the American public has elected an anti-scientific
demagogue as its next President, the world comprehends the United States as the
land of superstition, hatemongering, and backwardness. America’s influence has been annihilated by
the fool Trump, and decades of strategy and diplomacy have now gone down the
tubes.
Ignorance is the hallmark
of Trump’s Republican Fascists
The effects of anthropogenic climate change are already
being experienced around the world in temperature anomalies, retreating ice
cover, rising sea level, ocean acidification, and dislocations of human,
animal, and plant populations.
Climate change isn’t going away just because an ignorant
fool decided to ignore it.
The people have
chosen extinction for their children
Americans have spoken, and they have voted against the
futures of their own children. Simple-minded fantasies are so much easier to
understand than the true complexities of our world.
Trump defines itself
The Trump has now defined itself as the enemy of all mankind. Humanity cannot sit by idly while Trump
destroys our most precious gift, knowledge, and along with it, mankind’s chance
of survival.
