Sammy Wilson blocks further climate change propoganda

george_2

it was sabotage!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5796656.ece

The centrepiece satellite of Nasa’s $280 million climate-change mission crashed into the sea near Antarctica today after a launch failure, delivering a blow to the agency's attempts to understand global warming.
The carbon dioxide-monitoring satellite was fired on a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but after blasting through the Earth’s atmosphere it fell short of its orbiting height and plummeted back towards the sea.
The orbiting carbon observatory (OCO) satellite was designed to map carbon dioxide on Earth to provide an important step forward for scientists attempting to understand climate change.
John Brunschwyler, one of the scientists heading the mission, said: “Our whole team at a very personal level are disappointed, we are very upset with the results.
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“For the scientific community it’s a huge disappointment. There was such anticipation of this groundbreaking spacecraft that could measure the [climate change] issue on the front of our newspapers — it took a long time to get here.”
The fault appears to have occurred several minutes into the flight when the protective shield that allows spacecraft to travel through the Earth’s atmosphere is supposed to be jettisoned. Instead the heavy cladding, including a nose cone, remained attached, slowing down the Taurus XL rocket.
The rocket therefore failed to carry its multimillion-dollar cargo to the intended 438 miles above the Earth.
“As a direct result of carrying that weight it didn’t have enough acceleration to reach orbit and it came down just short of Antarctica — it did not overfly any land,” said Mr Brunschwyler, of Orbital Sciences, the company that has developed the rocket and the satellite over the past eight years.
As the mission fell apart, George Diller, Nasa’s launch commentator, said: "This is Taurus launch control. We have declared a launch contingency, meaning that we did not have a successful launch.”
The satellite was Nasa’s much-heralded first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide. Last month, Japan launched a satellite on a similar mission.
The OCO was supposed to capture eight million carbon dioxide measurements every 16 days, a dramatic increase in the current data available from a small network of instruments on the ground, on tall towers and in aircraft.
Up to 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide produced by humans “disappears” each year, absorbed by processes that scientists still do not understand.
Nasa had hoped the spacecraft would have shed light on the natural processes which take place in forests and oceans, absorbing the carbon dioxide produced by humans. Scientists cannot currently explain why the amount varies dramatically from year to year.
The OCO was supposed to help scientists better to understand what causes this variability and whether natural absorption will continue, stop or even reverse.

thriftyminx13

i'm confused.

absoluteutopia

I couldnt care less

cooki2222

He's like our very own george bush