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> The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money. You'd think an organizati
by creshal 11y ago
> The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.
You'd think an organization like NASA can plan their budgets a bit better than that.
- hanniabu 11y agoYou'd think an organization as important as NASA wouldn't have to worry about budget cuts year after year.
- GTP 11y agoYou'd think an organization as important as NASA would have chosen better which tapes were suitable to erase and which not.
- dijit 11y agothat's employee time, thus, money.
- coldpie 11y agoThe House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is chaired by Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who denies climate change science and is currently busy wasting gov't time and funds harassing NOAA scientists. It's all going to be fine... it's all going to be fine...
- Agustus 11y agoMr. Smith does not deny climate change science, he is a skeptic, not the same. As a congressman, he is afforded the roles of his position to investigate corruption or suspicions of corruption, which in this case includes an agency using taxpayer dollars avoiding the release of information to a committee. The NOAA situation is one where the agency should openly share data with the committee and Mr. Smith would go away, by stonewalling, the agency does not help the cause of science or dissipate suspicion of obfuscating results.
- coldpie 11y ago"""It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made. NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda.""" http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/congressman-doubles-down-accuses-noaa-scientists-of-doctoring-results/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/congressman-doubles-d... Fffffffffffaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttttttttt
- creshal 11y ago> NOAA provided Rep. Smith with all the data, methods, and explanation he requested but has refused to hand over the communications of its scientists, which it regards as protected. I'd better hope so.
- Agustus 11y agoRidiculous, a government agency with individuals paid for by the American tax payer is not willing to release to the American public internal communications.
- tertius 11y agoWhy? We don't allow this in business, why should we allow this in the government? Think Steve Jobs asking a VP to show his reasons for obfuscating the reasons for sales figures reported over a period and then adjusted. VP: Sorry, that's confidential. In this situation, I'm paying the administrator (that person that governmental agencies are accountable to) to make sure those agencies aren't obfuscating their own reasons. I demand answers, whether those answers lead nowhere is inconsequential.
- mturmon 11y agoThat's not the correct analogy. The House has oversight to be sure money is not wasted, but not to monitor all dialogue between scientists. For a summary of what's going on, better than I can do here, see this letter from another member of the House science committee: http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/Ranking%20Member%20Johnson%20Letter%20to%20Chairman%20Smith%20on%20NOAA%20Subpoena.pdf http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...
- sharpray 11y agoAre the people handling the tapes personally worried about budget cuts, or does NASA have separate jobs for separate concerns?
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoIt is a government organization. If it can be run badly, it will be run badly.