{"id":393984,"date":"2019-01-24T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/life-on-planet-earth-in-peril-as-shutdown-halts-climate-study\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:58:18","slug":"life-on-planet-earth-in-peril-as-shutdown-halts-climate-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/life-on-planet-earth-in-peril-as-shutdown-halts-climate-study\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Life on Planet Earth\u2019 in Peril as Shutdown Halts Climate Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kyle-drennen\/2019\/01\/22\/msnbc-life-planet-earth-peril-shutdown-halts-climate-study\"><strong>Newsbusters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 23, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, on Monday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur and correspondent Jacob Soboroff warned that the most devastating impact may be a temporary delay in a NASA climate change study. Soboroff feared that \u201clife on planet Earth\u201d itself may be in jeopardy if the budget impasse was not resolved soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAnd several scientific projects have been slowed or stopped completely by the government shutdown,\u201d<\/strong> Tur fretted on her 2:00 p.m. ET hour show. Reciting a list of impacts from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2019\/01\/09\/shutdown-continues-so-does-damage-us-science\/?utm_term=.4cc122e27e7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, she noted in part: \u201cNOAA has yet to release the average U.S. temperature data for 2018.\u201d She then added: <strong>\u201cAccording to government officials who talked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/05\/us\/government-shutdown-science.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, \u2018The impasse will eventually show in shutdown-size gaps in data that scientists often collect across generations.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-filter video-mrctv video-center vf-536419 embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/536419\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The host specifically highlighted how <strong>\u201cNASA\u2019s 10-year-old IceBridge campaign will suffer from one of those gaps.\u201d<\/strong> She worried: \u201cThe program, that was set to begin on March 4th to measure ice loss near the North Pole, <strong>just had to cut half of its scheduled work and it could be \u2013 potentially get cancelled all together.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soboroff recalled joining the expedition last year for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kyle-drennen\/2018\/04\/09\/nbc-visits-arctic-no-debate-all-about-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report featured on the <em>Today<\/em> show<\/a><\/strong> in which he claimed there was \u201cno debate at all\u201d about climate change. On Monday, he sounded the alarm:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>But, this is actually critically serious to the future \u2013 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an exaggeration to say \u2013 the future of human beings\u2019 life on planet Earth.<\/strong> Because for 10 years, this flight and these satellites have been up there seamlessly measuring polar ice, both at the North Pole and at the South Pole. I got to go with them last year and take a look at it and it was an extraordinary thing\u2026.And the shutdown now is gonna basically stop one of these flights from going and seamlessly collecting this data, which is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/msnbc-life-on-planet-earth-in-peril-as-shutdown-halts-climate-study.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsbustersJanuary 23, 2019 Amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, on Monday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur and correspondent Jacob Soboroff warned that the most devastating impact may be a temporary delay in a NASA climate change study. Soboroff feared that \u201clife on planet Earth\u201d itself may be in jeopardy if the budget impasse was not resolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}