Planetary Scientists Decry Trump's Proposed Earth-Science Cuts

Planetary Scientists Decry Trump's Proposed Earth-Science Cuts

NASA's Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green described his program's proposed 16 percent budget bump as "incredibly good" during a talk Monday (March 20) at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. But many researchers in the packed room focused instead on the hit taken by Earth sciences, a cut that critics have linked to the politics of global warming.