This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017. “We see Nasa in an exploration role, in deep space research,” Walker told the Guardian. I believe that climate research is necessary but it has been heavily politicized, which has undermined a lot of the work that researchers have been doing. Mr Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science.”Read the full piece:

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2016 16:25 UTC