Nasa satellite mission to monitor carbon dioxide fails (Update 3)

Global warming strikes again.

from the article :"Carbon dioxide is the leading greenhouse gas driving climate change"
I am continually disappointed and disgusted by obvious tripe like this being inserted into "science" articles on this sight.
It finally got to the point where I had to register and say something. ... CO2 DOESN'T MATTER AS A GREENHOUSE GAS! water masks its effect. its the sun and the water.

Makes you wonder why it "failed"....were they afraid of what it would have shown?

Great... just like ground-hog day, OCO peeked outside its fairing and then went back into the lift vehicle. Now we're gonna have 6 more years of inconclusive and annoying GW hype.

(All kidding aside, I heard that AlGore was seen riding that rocket into space like Slim Pickens on the back of that A-bomb in 'Dr. Strangelove'.)

Maybe if NASA spent more money for salaries of scientists concerned with launching satellites instead of wasting money on someone like James Hansen, they would have more success with their launches.

Maybe if NASA spent more money for salaries of scientists concerned with launching satellites instead of wasting money on someone like James Hansen, they would have more success with their launches.

^What he said, a thousand times what he said....

to all above - remember: Never A Straight Answer

As an aside

FTA:"Carbon dioxide is the leading greenhouse gas and its buildup helps trap heat from the sun, causing potentially dangerous warming of the planet."

FALSE. Water vapor is the leading greenhouse gas by light years...

Maybe if NASA spent more money for salaries of scientists concerned with launching satellites instead of wasting money on someone like James Hansen, they would have more success with their launches.

Ummm.... You would fire Hansen and that would be purely for scientific reasons, nothing political about it? Not sure I like that sort of "science".

FALSE. Water vapor is the leading greenhouse gas by light years...

True, but if you understood the issues at all, you'd know that, in earth's atmosphere, water vapour is a controlled variable, not controlling. Water vapour content of atmosphere rises and falls according to temperature, so quantity of water vapour depends entirely on OTHER pathways which affect atmospheric temperature, eg. methane, CO2, NOx, insolation (Milankovitch cycles), solar variation, etc.

You kiddies should get back to your classrooms.

Maybe if NASA spent more money for salaries of scientists concerned with launching satellites instead of wasting money on someone like James Hansen, they would have more success with their launches.

Ummm.... You would fire Hansen and that would be purely for scientific reasons, nothing political about it? Not sure I like that sort of "science".

Why not he was hired for political reasons...not sure I like that sort of "science".

True, but if you understood the issues at all, you'd know that, in earth's atmosphere, water vapour is a controlled variable, not controlling. Water vapour content of atmosphere rises and falls according to temperature, so quantity of water vapour depends entirely on OTHER pathways which affect atmospheric temperature, eg. methane, CO2, NOx, insolation (Milankovitch cycles), solar variation, etc.

You kiddies should get back to your classrooms

Perhaps you should confine yourself to rational debate (not something I've come to expect from you, but still one can try) and leave out the ad hom?

I meant what I said, and it was the truth. If he wanted to tag all those qualifiers on the statement you did to EXPLAIN why he thinks "Carbon dioxide is the leading greenhouse gas..." then he should have. Fact is that he didn't. That's how false assumptions get carried across in propaganda pieces and is a common practice in such.

I reject the the patently false statement and the hidden assumption behind it made in the article and pointed it out. That it bothers your pwooor widdle political sensibilities is of absolutely zero concern to me.

Funny how exactly this satellite's launch failed. Sorry, but I don't believe this is an accident.

Sorry, but I don't believe this is an accident.

It was Colonel Mustard in the living room with the revolver! (... or was it Mr. Gore in the bedroom with the internet?)

This was no accident... Just a complete waste of taxpayer money.