The Greatest Threat - part the seventeenth

If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.
-- Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don/2020 on the problem with collecting Covid-19 data. Today, he's got his Office of Data Integrity to deal with such unAmerican activities.

You can be sure that VoA, what's left of it, won't be telling us about the climate change satellites about to be destroyed. Those days are over.

The two satellites provide precise global measurements of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that is warming the world. The data has been used in climate reports issued by both the United States and the United Nations and has been an important resource for other countries as they assess ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Without funding to operate them, the two missions are at risk of going offline along with three older missions — known as Terra, Aqua, and Aura — that are also still producing valuable climate and weather data. Another imperiled mission that monitors the atmosphere, Sage III, has been attached to the International Space Station since 2017.

A satellite can be decommissioned in a number of ways. The youngest missions potentially affected by the president's proposed budget cuts, OCO 3 and SAGE 3, would likely just be turned off, since they are on the space station.

It's easy to call "hoax" if there's no data to expose the lie. A very Trumpian way. The only way.