It's ironic that budget hawks and conservatives who have long argued that manned space exploration is a money-wasting boondoggle and that NASA ought to be spending more time focusing on the Earth … are now spawning folk insisting that NASA's core science program is space exploration and that Earth science is a money-wasting boondoggle because it supports climate change.
Republicans outraged over NASA earth science programs… that Reagan began
Republicans trying to dry up NASA’s earth science funding may not realize its origins.
Facts do support climate change.