system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are they trying to remove Earth monitoring from NASA's budget?

Neil Degrasse Tyson just mentioned his opinion on the matter in an AMA. What's the back story?
gpt
A cynical view would be that they do not want to document climate change. A scientist recently complained that observations made years ago on arctic regions are no longer available online since the Trump administration to over. Without the ability to refer to how things were how can we tell they changed?