Interesante lo que dice Bob Park
http://www.bobpark.org/"A hacked e-mail passage that was widely quoted in media accounts of climate-
gate, begins: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at
the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Francisco Valero, Director
of the Atmospheric Research Laboratory at the Scripps Institution for
Oceanography, says the statement is totally correct. The problem began
where most of our problems began: at the start of The Bush administration.
Because Al Gore initiated it, the Bush administration postponed and
eventually canceled the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), meant to
continuously monitor Earth's radiance from the L1 point between Earth and
Sun. Instead NASA began a program to get the information from low Earth
orbit: CERES, Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES). The
problem is that the low-Earth orbit satellite is so close that it sees only
a narrow swath on each pass around the planet. Climate models require
accurate radiance measurements over the diurnal cycle, and those data are
not at hand. DSCOVR was designed to provide what the low-Earth orbit
satellites cannot. An $18.7 billion NASA budget sent to the White House
last Sunday includes only $5 million for continued refurbishing of DSCOVR.
That is also a travesty."
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