Rabid climate change denier Sen. Ted Cruz, new chairman of the Senate subcommittee in charge of overseeing NASA, has told the space agency to focus on space exploration and not on "political distractions that are extraneous to NASA's mandate" such as climate change. Cruz's chairmanship of the subcommittee is setting off a panic among environmental groups that are seriously concerned the Texas senator will do what he can to impede NASA research into climate change. Cruz has said his priority is to reinvigorate U.S. space exploration, which means NASA programs monitoring climate change will be placed on the back burner.
NASA, however, is a champion in the global fight against climate change and has 12 orbiting satellites monitoring the Earth for climate change and all aspects of the Earth system, including oceans, land, atmosphere, biosphere and cryosphere. It plans to launch several more Earth observation satellites in the next few years.
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Republicans are also offended the International Space Station has been at the mercy of Russia and its fleet of supply spacecraft since the U.S. retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011.
Besides, it'll be much less expensive and more efficient when Tea Party Ted downsizes and outsources NASA to the Chinese Communists instead.
No wonder I despise these double-talking frauds.
