America's Retreat From Earth Monitoring?

Pentagon to pare climate satellites, AP

“The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world that the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases. A confidential report to the White House, obtained by The Associated Press, warns that U.S. scientists will soon lose much of their ability to monitor warming from space using a costly and problem-plagued satellite initiative begun more than a decade ago.”