Loss of satellite major setback for Earth-watching scientists
The $280 million mission was designed to answer one of the biggest question marks of global warming: What happens to the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide spewed by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas? How much of it is sucked up and stored by plants, soil and oceans and how much is left to trap heat on Earth, worsening global warming?
"It's definitely a setback. We were already well behind," said Neal Lane, science adviser during former ...
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