Greenland is Melting Away

I can't believe that there are people in the USG that want to cut funding for this kind of research. Really? And spend it on what? Missiles to kill people?

This kind of research is the one that keeps America and the forefront of science and technology. I'm glad that the federal government and NASA have continued to do science regardless of all that political pressure. These US institutions need to be strengthened with more funding.

Every American needs to read this piece [0] about how Lamar Smith and Republicans in Congress are trying to shut down science they don't like by undermining peer review and ridiculing grant proposals with funny titles.

We are facing a new Lysenkoism [1].

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9616370/science-committee-wors... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Wow... that's the first time that I've ever gotten immediate vertigo from visiting a site. Whose bright idea was it to put a full-frame moving aerial image at the top of the article?

I seriously just had to lie down for five minutes thanks to that.