NASA moet meten van broeikasgassen stoppen

10 mei 2018

NASA moet meten van broeikasgassen stoppen

Trump schrapt activiteiten; kans voor ESA om leidende rol over te nemen

Bron: Science Paul Voosen. May. 9, 2018

You can't manage what you don't measure. The adage is especially relevant for climate-warming greenhouse gases, which are crucial to manage—and challenging to measure. In recent years, though, satellite and aircraft instruments have begun monitoring carbon dioxide and methane remotely, and NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year research line, has helped stitch together observations of sources and sinks into high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon. Now, President Donald Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS, Science has learned.