P.S. The article says, “…the bill grants NASA $450 million, but it states that the agency must spend at least $200 million on ‘climate-research missions,’ which raises the question: Is there global warming in space?”

As a former NASA intern, I would like to point out that NASA does do climate research. I worked in the atmospheric chemistry department there, where they do measurements on stuff like hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere. I don’t think there are many other places that do the kind of research that they can do (I think there’s one in Japan and another in Colorado). I’d probably guess because the measuring equipment is expensive.