My thumb got pinched off between a boat and roots of a tree along the bank of a river . It ripped muscle and crushed bone . <| sep |> There is no may about this . GOP congressional leaders have made absolutely no secret over the past couple of years that they want NASA to stop all research into climate change because they claim it is not their mission even though the agency ' s charter and 58 years of statutes and congressional mandates has made it NASA ' s mission but instead belongs to other agencies other agencies whose budgets are already being squeezed and will NOT be increased to assume NASA ' s current role . With the GOP in control of both houses of Congress and a Republican in the White House who has made public statements for months that climate change is a hoax , there is absolutely no doubt that the Congress and POTUS will do everything in their power to gut NASA ' s climate research programs and destroy its unique capabilities .