Government report: Historic drought not caused by global warming
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Posted on 04/12/2013 11:59:31 PM PDT by Rocky
There’s no money to run White House tours, but apparently there’s money to pull one of Al’s pet projects out of mothballs.
Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly By SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing dusting off and finally launching an old environmental satellite championed by Al Gore but shelved a dozen years by his 2000 rival George W. Bush.
Obama proposed Wednesday spending nearly $35 million in his 2014 budget to refurbish a satellite, nicknamed GoreSat by critics, that’s been sitting in storage after it was shelved in 2001, months after Bush took office. It cost about $100 million by then with NASA’s internal auditors faulting its cost increases.
In 1998, Gore, then vice president, proposed the idea of a satellite that would head nearly 1 million miles out in deep space in a special gravity balancing area between Earth and the Sun. The satellite would gaze at Earth, beam down a continuous picture of our planet and take what scientists said was needed climate change measurements.
It originally was named Triana after the sailor on Christopher Columbus’s crew who first sighted land in the Americas. NASA later changed its name to Deep Space Climate Observatory or DISCOVR. But it often got called GoreSat by opponents who called it an expensive screensaver for the vice president.
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This seems like a total waste of money at a time when we are supposed to be tightening our belts.
Has Al Gore ever done anything useful? Has Obama done anything besides spend money?
For the list if true.
The likelihood of taking this out of storage and updating it to make it perform the original mission, is nil.
Hardware availability and hardware/software compatibility are big obstacles.
It will still be on the ground when bozo leaves office.
One of the comments to the blog:
“Given its vintage, it’s probably running a customized combination version of Windows CE, Me, and NT otherwise known as CEMENT.”
[Zero] is proposing dusting off and finally launching an old environmental satellite championed by Al Gore... [Zero] proposed Wednesday spending nearly $35 million in his 2014 budget to refurbish a satellite, nicknamed GoreSat by critics, that’s been sitting in storage after it was shelved in 2001... It cost about $100 million by then with NASA’s internal auditors faulting its cost increases... a satellite that would head nearly 1 million miles out in deep space in a special gravity balancing area between Earth and the Sun. The satellite would gaze at Earth, beam down a continuous picture of our planet... Deep Space Climate Observatory or DISCOVR... often got called GoreSat by opponents who called it an expensive screensaver for the vice president.
Government report: Historic drought not caused by global warming
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It’ll make an excellent conduit of cash to somebody’s pockets while it sits on the ground.
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