Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would’ve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring

When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started snipping wires across DC, they took out critical programs like the government's premier climate research website and the hurricane-hunter aircraft gathering data on dangerous storms. While they were at it, the Trump administration also ripped up a project that would have vastly improved the country's ability to monitor wildfires. The GeoXO program was a project originally encompassing six satellites that would greatly improve the resolution available to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor atmospheric conditions like wildfire smoke, as well as weather events like lightning strikes, and climate observations such as color changes in the ocean's surface. More

(Source: Yahoo - Jul 18)