https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/05/donald-trump-accused-blocking-satellite-climate-change-research

This article is making the rounds again on FB, saw it on a science page - total Trump-trashing BS. This is what passes for journalism these days? Five minutes of research, man…

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) was the old stuff, was to be succeeded by the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) in 2006, but it appears to have gotten caught in Defense Contractor Development Hell between Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, and Ball Aerospace… and the specs argued about between DoD and NOAA, and got held up until 2011.

At that point it got split between the JPSS for NOAA and the DWSS for DoD. Air Force apparently cancelled their end in 2012, but NOAA is still going with JPSS.

So along comes Trump. In February 2017, there's rumblings about how DoD's weather satellite program is messed up. By December, Ball Aerospace has the WSF-M program rolling. Ball is #88 in the top 100 defense contractors; NG is #2, Boeing and Raytheon are #4 and #6. Ball was probably hungrier, and offered a better deal doing it solo.

So it's not about "muh polar ice caps" like the brain dead hippies are whining about. It's about cost overruns and cash cows and cutting a better deal. Another win from Trump that's lost on these ingrates. They'd rather ignore that the advanced NOAA JPSS program is ongoing and the new DoD stuff got signed off on by Trump's admin.