The not voting is helping argument is bullshit at a basic mathematical level and you know it . <| sep |> Remote sensing is used right now to predict drought , weather , track forest fires , measure snow pack , estimate forest density . Please try to read up on this . The technology is not some pipe dream . It is vital to farmers , firefighters , ecologists , meteorologists , and yes , climatologists . It is foolish to suggest that putting money towards our understanding of our planet from spacebased sensor platforms is a waste . Really , you need to understand that the data NASA collects is used by tens of thousands of all sorts of scientists and improves lives today . NASA isn ' t even the right place to research climate change mitigation , so there ' s another reason why your eitheror mentality is shortsighted and apparently poorly researched .