Unfortunately,<p>"the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology approved a budget authorization for NASA that would see continued spending on Orion and the Space Launch System but slash the agency's budget for Earth sciences. This vote follows the committee's decision to cut the NSF's geoscience budget and comes after a prominent attack on NASA's Earth sciences work during a Senate hearing, all of which suggests a concerted campaign against the researchers who, among other things, are telling us that climate change is a reality."<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/house-science-committee-guts-nasa-earth-sciences-budget/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/house-science-committ...</a>