Donald Trump Is Sending NASA To Space, Away From Climate Change

In contrast to U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to fund climate change projects by reducing the space exploration budget, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly under the arrangement of cutting NASA's Earth Sciences funding to prioritize the agency's deep space exploration missions.

The Telegraph reports that the business tycoon turned President, who is popular for describing climate change as a "Chinese hoax," is expected to push NASA toward exploring the heavenly bodies than to deal with our planet's life-threatening situation.

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive," Trump tweeted in 2012.

While it has been a concern that Trump may pull out Obama's intended funding for the climate change deal in Paris, the newly elected president's adviser on space policy, Bob Walker, has spoken to the British newspaper about the possibilities of humans completing its solar system exploration by the end of this century.

According to Global News, Bob Walker and his partner, Peter Navarro stated that on this new presidential era, most of NASA's budget will go to SpaceX, Boeing and Orbital ATK among others, reducing NASA to "a logistics agency concentrating on space station resupply and politically environmental monitoring."

Meanwhile, NASA's new associate administrator for science, Thomas Zurbuchen, released a statement in defense of the agency's Earth Science Division. "Nasa's work on Earth science is making a difference in people's lives all around the world every day," he said. "Earth science helps save lives."

Concerning Trump's "Chinese hoax" statement, Bloomberg reports that China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin gave Trump a history lesson about climate change talks among world leaders. He pointed out that it was his predecessors', Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr., who first supported the global warming negotiations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the 1980s, which reportedly happened before China's global warming awareness.