NASA’s plans for climate research
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.0984
NASA officials laid out plans last Wednesday to boost spending on climate research substantially over the next five years, to make up for cutbacks during the Bush administration.
The news was widely covered in the media, including the Washington Post .
Edward Weiler, the agency’s associate administrator for science, said that NASA’s Earth science budget will get a $2.4 billion, or 62%, increase through 2015. By that point, the program will have launched as many as 10 new missions, collecting information about ocean temperatures, ice coverage, ozone depletion, and the central question of how much carbon dioxide is being released through human activities.
NPR also covered the budget request , while in a related piece on the BBC website on the new US exploration strategy, NASA administrator Charlie Bolden gives an interview in which he reflects on the end of the space shuttle program and the battle to win over critics of the new strategy.
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