Follow-Up: More on Trump's Catastrophic Plan to Gut NASA's Earth Science

As expected, the days leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration are like the timer on an atomic bomb ticking down to Armageddon. Every day there's some new horrific thing he and his cronies do, and the only predictable thing they do is find the worst possible choice to make in any given circumstance. This was brought home, hard, when Bob Walker, a top Trump adviser, recently said that the new administration will gut NASA's Earth science program. The reason: Trump's long-standing and implacable c...