Trump has had a tough go in getting Europe to spend on their own defense all while EU nations are fearporning on the threat from Russia, but, they’re happy to Worry about ‘climate change’
As climate extremes intensify and global tipping points loom, Earth science has never been more vital — but not everyone is treating it that way.
In the United States, NASA’s science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the agency’s Earth science division by nearly half and downsizes its workforce by a third.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the European Space Agency (ESA) is taking the opposite approach. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025, held in Vienna, Austria, ESA leadership showcased the agency’s ambitious forward-looking vision for Earth observation, one that extends not just to the next fiscal cycle but decades into the future.
“Earth observation within the organization [ESA], agency is a major priority,” said ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher during the ESA Living Planet 2025 opening ceremony.
The proposed budget would cancel several flagship missions and reduce NASA’s ability to monitor wildfires, atmospheric carbon, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events — all during what scientists say is the most critical decade for climate action.
So, was the US supposed to monitor the rest of the world for free forever? Most of the NASA personnel being cut are unnecessary, they’re climate hysterics, and/or do the same job as many others unnecessarily.
Leaders at the Living Planet Symposium laid out a bold, long-term approach to Earth and climate science, centered on collaboration, innovation, and open access.
“Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation, requiring us to transform observation into immediate action, the energy transition and sustainable development of our infrastructure demand reasonable steps from all of us,” said Peter Hanke, Austrian Federal Minister of Innovation Mobility and Infrastructure, during the opening ceremony.
Who’s paying for it? Higher taxes in the EU? Where’s the money coming from? And do the citizens in the EU approve of this?
The Vince Show – BUTLER: Where Are We One Year After The Assassination Attempt? | Episode 83 – 07/11/25
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-vince-show-butler-where-are-we-one.html
Mr teach asks where the EU will find money for CO2 mitigation? From the same place as their defense budgets.
Most European NATO nations are spending nearly as much (as % GDP) as the U.S. They recently pledged to spend 5% of GDP!!
For what ever reason, MAGAts hate the Europeans but they love Putin and Russia (as long as Dear Leader does). Ironically, the majority of Americans are of European stock! Finnish, German, Greek, English, Scottish, Irish, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian etc! Our family is primarily English settlers from the 1700s. According to Jay Dee Vance we’re more American than most, although native Americans may disagree.
Anyway, global warming is global. It’s in the name. NOAA’s budget for 2025 WAS just $6.6 BILLION. The trump will make that much on his Crypto Scam (scam) this year alone, mostly from anonymous foreign “investors”, and will avoid taxes on it!!
The agitated Mr Dowd wrote:
The late Senator Everett Dirkson once said, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
That’s the problem with some of our friends on the left: they can always find another program and another program and another program, and it’s “just” $nn billion, and for such a good cause, that we simple have to do it.
Well, no, we don’t. We don’t have to spend more and more and more money for every cockamamie program someone thinks is a good idea. We’ve been doing that for decades, and we’re more than our GDP in debt because of it. Even drunken sailors have to quit spending money when they run out of money, but our federal government apparently does not.
We appreciate the reference of the great Senator, Everett Dirkson (R-IL) one of the most quotable of Senators!
But about “a bilion here, a billion there” he said: “Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered to deny it.”
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
“I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.”
Senator Dirkson was a bigly supportive of civil rights including the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
“The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied.”
From Pekin, IL where until 1981 the high school athletic teams were the Pekin Chinks!!
Does Mr Dana agree that taxpayers should stop paying for Mr trump’s weekly vacations?
You call that agitated? You should hear me after hitting draw off the tee on a dogleg right!!
Mr teach types, without evidence:
Who told him that? trump? LOL. trump makes scheisse up.
Mr. Dowd types, without evidence:
Who told him that? The Democrat party? The media? LOL. The Democrat/Media complex makes scheisse up.
Numerous sources have catalogued The Lyin’ King’s thousands of false and misleading statements.
In defense of trump, the Washington Post claims a liar must know he is lying. Trump, in contrast, is not a liar but instead a “bullshitter”, they claim. He just says all kinds of bullshit.
Scheisse = “Scheiße” is a German word, pronounced roughly as “SHY-suh”. It translates to “shit” in English and is considered a vulgar term. It’s a common exclamation of displeasure or frustration, similar to saying “damn” or “crap” in English. It can also be used as a more general term for something being bad or terrible, like “This is really scheiße!”
I heard it from Jewish friends and colleagues who used Yiddish terms.
You could look it up.
Lol
Mr Teach also believes that the 50% of the Republicans polled in the CNN poll he posted about recently that believe that it is the governments job to cut carbon pollution in half by 2030 are also climate “hysterics”
Climate change deniers are slowly but steadily going extonct
The surrogates of our Mr Teach hate seeing facts that are opposite of what they want to believe.
And what “facts” would those be?