Final Instruments on NASA Climate/Weather Satellite Integrated

<IThe NPP mission is a NASA-managed project to provide continuity with NASA’s Earth Observing System measurements and to provide risk reduction for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) managed by the NPOESS Integrated Program Office, a tri-agency program made up of NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense. However in 2010, due to cost overruns and delays, a task force led by the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy recommended against continuing NPOESS.
So, is this bird going to fly?
If NASA needs a place to save some money I’ve got a really, really, good suggestion.

We will always have the answer next year or next decade that proves something or other is right. If it was right the answer would already be evident! Better resolution measurements only delays having the answer until the answer means nothing.

How come the instruments will not be measuring CO2?

Curiousgeorge says:
July 27, 2010 at 12:22 pm
and by the his fund managers $150 m worth from his election campagne

pat says:
July 27, 2010 at 2:08 pm
interesting response by Diana Liverman to michael “IPCC” oppenheimer’s mexican immigration “study”:
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I notice they mentioned the free trade agreements, but did not mention how many Mexican farmers were driven off the land and the rest of the complications. To actually understand the problem you need to realize all the repercussions of the “free trade” agreements.
Former US president Bill Clinton admits that the US ‘free trade’ policy has forced millions of people in third world countries into poverty and starvation.
“Today’s global food crisis shows we all blew it, including me when I was president, by treating food crops as commodities instead of as a vital right of the world’s poor, Bill Clinton has told a UN gathering.
Clinton took aim at decades of international policymaking by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others, encouraged by the US, that pressured Africans in particular into dropping government subsidies for fertiliser, improved seed and other farm inputs, in economic “structural adjustments” required to win northern aid. Africa’s food self-sufficiency subsequently declined and food imports rose.
“Food is not a commodity like others,” Clinton said. “We should go back to a policy of maximum food self-sufficiency. It is crazy for us to think we can develop countries around the world without increasing their ability to feed themselves.” [November 2008]
In the dozens of countries where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have imposed structural adjustment programs (SAPs), the people who have seen deterioration in their standards of living, reduced access to public services, devastated environments, and plummeting employment prospect
More recently:
I wish I could tell you this was an April Fools joke. I really do.
“About a month ago [April 2010] Bill Clinton sat in congress and admitted that he played a vital part in the willful destruction of the agricultural base of Haiti in order to “relieve them of the burden of producing their own food so they could leap right into the industrial revolution“. Not only does he try to pass off their neoliberalization scheme as a “mistake” but he admits it was really only good for ”some of my farmers (subsidized rice farmers) in Arkansas“….”
Here is the nitty gritty on what has actually happened in Mexico thanks to President Clinton’s attack on wold farming through NAFTA and the World Trade Organizations Agreement on Agriculture.
“According to a study by Jose Romero and Alicia Puyana carried out for the federal government of Mexico, between 1992 and 2002, the number of agricultural households fell an astounding 75% – from 2.3 million to 575, 000…..
The vacuum created by retreat of the Mexican state from agriculture was filled by large US and Mexican agribusiness. In the post-NAFTA period the bulk of FDI in agricultural sector has been in the agri-business and agro-processing rather than agriculture[15]. As a result a few large trans-national agribusiness firms, mostly US and Mexican, dominate storage, flour milling, grain trading[16] and meat processing. Put differently they dominate the intermediation chain that takes crop or cattle and makes it a marketable commodity. Transnational agribusiness has used this dominant position and a process of vertical and horizontal integration to establish an overwhelming presence in the market for wheat, rice, corn, soya, poultry, meat, pork and eggs….
There has been a significant increase in migration out of rural areas as livelihoods are lost and farms have been abandoned. The hope was that this migration out of low-productivity agriculture would be absorbed into higher-productivity non-agrarian urban employment. But anemic employment growth in the post-NAFTA period, particularly in manufacturing[20], put paid to that…..To put this in context between 1994 and 2004, Mexico’s labour force grew by approximately 1 million annually[25]. So effectively today Mexico imports food from the USA and exports farmers and agricultural labour.
It is not just the fact that Mexico’s small and marginal farmers have borne the brunt of the adjustment of Mexican agriculture’s integration into global markets. The spike in food prices in the last couple of years has put enormous pressure on its BOP and the agricultural trade deficit that had begun narrowing has widened sharply,….price increases has meant that import costs of oilseeds, milk, eggs, meat and meat products has increased significantly. At the same time prices for most of Mexico’s agricultural exports such as fruits and vegetables have either stagnated or declined.
In many ways therefore, despite the strides in agricultural exports, Mexico’s NAFTA based transnational agri-business driven agricultural strategy must be deemed a failure. Food production has stagnated, cultivated area under food production has declined and the underinvestment that has characterized Mexican agriculture in the 1980s has not been reversed. The problem of food security has reappeared and because of large migration of farmers and farm labour to USA, depleting the rural countryside of the human resources it requires for an agrarian revival, even if public policy chose to focus on it…
…it is important to remember that 95 percent of the world small and marginal farmers live in poor, developing countries and that 75% of the world’s poor survive on agriculture. For developing countries therefore the key to both food security and livelihood security is the ability to protect small and marginal farmers from unfair competition…[There are] 450 million small and marginal farmers (globally)…” http://www.countercurrents.org/mohanty230608.htm
Other Reading:
Food Security, Farming, CAFTA and the WTO
Undermining Abundance: The Big Business of Creating Scarcity
History, the International HACCP regs and Food
Stolen harvest: the hijacking of the global food supply

Contractors will build anything you want if you pay the price. Want a great instrument panel? Design one. Then pay the price. Want a worthless, meaningless instrument panel? Design one. Then pay the price. – It would be foolish of us to ‘assume’ that NASA, NOAA, or anyone else has designed anything worth a tinker’s d, before it’s launched, tested, and starts sending back anything better than Ouji Board answers. Da’ Proofs in da Puddin! Let’s hope the same people who gave us AGW can do better this time.