If I Don't Know It, It Isn't Real
I continue to find it amazing how politics can work so hard to co-opt information when it doesn't want to know it. Storm Track reported today that according to the magazine Science, climate change sensors are being dropped from the next generation of polar-orbiting satellites. The reason we are told is cost.

How convenient. If there are no sensors specifically set to discover climate change then that may very well mean that it isn't happening. After all we have no data to prove it. Ignore the fact that there is no data to support it because we don't have any sensors to measure the data. This is all happening in the political climate of an administration that doesn't believe climate change is real- or at least that it isn't being caused by human interaction with the environment.

Here's Storm Track's closing paragraph:

Sadly, since NOAA is the only source of global climate information obtained from satellites, it means that researchers will not be able to make significant advances in climate study as once thought.