NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is facing the termination of its lease, leaving it without a permanent home. This institute, pivotal in climate change research since the 1960s, has contributed significantly to understanding global warming. Notable figures like James Hansen have used GISS data to advocate for climate action. Critics argue that cost-cutting measures from the Trump administration threaten the United States' scientific leadership and the ongoing fight against climate change. The lease termination symbolizes a broader issue affecting scientific institutions and climate research funding.
"This is the place we came finally to understand the threat to the Earth that global warming representedâthe biggest threat in the history of our species." â Bill McKibben
"Their datasets were what allowed Hansen to go before Congress and speak with authority. He had the numbers and no one else did." â Bill McKibben
The end of GISS as we know it represents many things, including the damage the Trump administration's cost-cutting is doing to American scientific preeminence.
It's understandable that an announcement last month about a small office lease on the Upper West Side of Manhattan being canceled didn't get much attention.
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