 "Space Center in Florida Ingus Kruklitis / Shutterstock.com")
Climate research conducted at Nasa had been “heavily politicised”, said Robert Walker, a senior advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump.
This has led him to recommend stripping funding for climate research at Nasa.
Walker’s claim comes with a great deal of irony. Over the past few decades, climate science has indeed become heavily politicised. But it is ideological partisans cut from the same cloth as Walker who engineered such a polarised situation.
Believe it or not, climate change used to be a bipartisan issue. In 1988, Republican George H.W. Bush pledged to “fight the greenhouse effect with
