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Turbulence Ahead for Weather Satellites

2013-02-21 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Like a celestial version of Pixar's industrious robot Wall-E, environmental-monitoring satellites continually whiz overhead, quietly performing their allotted tasks of taking data and beaming the information down to climate researchers and weather forecasters. But a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlights the fact that this monitoring network-which weather forecasters and climate researchers rely on-is in trouble. That's because these U.S.-owned satellites are aging,...

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