NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) tracked sources and sinks for carbon and made high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon, said the report. "Now, President Donald Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS," it said, describing the move as the latest in a "broad attack on climate science," mounted by the White House. The journal Science said NASA "declined to provide a reason for the cancellation beyond 'budget constraints and higher priorities within the science budget.'" Existing grants would be allowed to finish but no new research would be supported, the report said. Trump has already canceled another earth science mission, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3), and announced the US pullout of the 2015 Paris climate accord.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 10, 2018 22:07 UTC