The Associated Press: NASA rocket failure blow to Earth watching network

[Paul D. Fernhout]

From:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXdhsfNkgwVvBi7G7FuHRALSg0GgD96I8UF80
"A new satellite to track the chief culprit in global warming crashed into
the ocean near Antarctica after launch Tuesday, dealing a major setback to
NASA's already weak network for monitoring Earth and its environment from
above. The $280 million mission was designed to answer one of the biggest
question marks of global warming: What happens to the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide spewed by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas? How much of it
is sucked up and stored by plants, soil and oceans and how much is left to
trap heat on Earth, worsening global warming?"

Just think what $280 million invested towards understanding our
manufacturing infrastructure and creating alternatives like OpenVirgle could
have accomplished...

--Paul Fernhout