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Welcome to program 418 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:46 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:57 MFSK32: New European space firm would compete with SpaceX
  5:06 MFSK64: Fired climate.gov employees create climate.us
10:18 MFSK64: This week's images
27:52 MFSK32: Closing announcements


 

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From AFP via Phys.org:

Airbus, Leonardo and Thales reported moving towards European
space firm

September 15, 2025

European aerospace firms Airbus, Leonardo and Thales could seal
an accord this year to set up a joint satellite enterprise, a
senior Airbus official told Corriere della Sera daily in an
interview published Sunday.

The three firms want to set up a satellite production entity to
rival Elon Musk's SpaceX and growing low-cost competition from
China and other countries.

Roberto Cingolani, head of Italy's Leonardo aerospace and defense
giant, said in June that an accord could be taken by July, but
the deadlines have been pushed back.

Michael Schoellhorn, chief executive of Airbus Defense and Space,
told Corriere della Sera he expected a deal to be signed this
year.

"We are on the right path but there are still aspects to clear up
before such an important step," he said. Schoellhorn blamed the
national and transnational "complexities" of the negotiations for
the delay, especially for satellites.

Cingolani said that to compete with US and Chinese rivals, the
new European firm would have to be more "flexible", offering
production and launch services to military and civilian clients.

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-airbus-leonardo-thales-european-space.html
 

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From Deutsche Welle:

Experts fired by Trump revive popular climate website

Stuart Braun
September 15, 2025

US President Donald Trump is an avowed climate science skeptic
who during his second term has followed through on promises to
slash funding for renewable energies like wind, and to promote
oil and gas.

But the administration has also gutted agencies that produce
climate information used by millions of Americans. In February,
only weeks after taking office, around 800 people were dismissed
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
which monitors ocean and climate conditions and issues weather
forecasts and warnings via its National Weather Service.

The firings also impacted the agency's climate.gov website, the
premier platform for climate information in the US that informs
readers about extreme weather, sea level and temperature rise,
and much else. It had around 15 million page views in 2024, noted
the AFP news agency.

'Public lost access to a trusted source of climate information'

Trump administration-appointed officials at NOAA not only
terminated climate.gov staff, they redirected the homepage to a
site controlled by political appointees, noted Rebecca Lindsey,
the former manager of climate.gov who was also sacked in
February.

"Our project was likely targeted because of its high visibility,"
she said.

The site became virtually obsolete after nearly all its remaining
staff were fired in early June.

"There is no longer a team to keep the mission going," Lindsey
said of a once-dynamic climate portal that was updated weekly and
monthly with explanations about the latest impacts of climate
change.

"The public has still lost access to a trusted source of timely
climate information," she added.

US climate community resists shutdown with independent site

But Lindsey is now leading an effort to relaunch climate.gov
independently under the climate.us URL.

"At a moment when critical climate information is being deleted
or distorted, we are stepping up to rescue key climate resources
… and to ensure the public has continued easy access to the
facts," states the recently launched website.

The successor to climate.gov is purposely outside the federal
government domain to keep it free from political interference,
and thus to protect the integrity of its climate information.

The plan is not only to revive and migrate all the climate data
removed from the climate.gov site, but to platform the likes of
the National Climate Assessment, the US government's flagship
report on climate change impacts, risks and responses before its
team of scientists were fired.

The dismantling of this key climate study was also part of the
general defunding of "renewable energy and climate resilience
projects" that were financed by Congress during the former Biden
administration, Lindsey explained. In March, for example, some
$20 billion (€18.3 billion) worth of clean power and climate
grants issued by the former government were terminated.

Meanwhile, experts say the shuttering of climate.gov will limit
preparedness for extreme weather events.

"Restricting the visibility of climate data blinds the country to
climate effects and makes it that much harder to prepare," wrote
the US-based Center for Climate and Security in a blog post in
June.

"Without preparation, communities and the nation at large will be
forced to react and rebuild, which is far more expensive than
working towards prevention," it added, noting that the global
economic cost of rebuilding after climate disasters in 2024 was
$320 billion (about €272 billion).

What information was actually purged from climate.gov?

The effort to reestablish a trusted source of climate information
comes after much was purged from climate.gov because it
referenced so-called "diversity, equity and inclusion," or DEI —
a policy that was labelled "immoral" and "illegal discrimination"
under a Trump executive order in January.

"Anything that had to do with the importance of diversity and
inclusion in science, anything to do with equity, justice or the
disproportionate impacts of climate change on historically
disadvantaged communities," was deleted from the climate.gov
site, Lindsey told DW.

Information mentioning the "Gulf of Mexico" that wasn't updated
to "Gulf of America" was also erased after Trump signed another
executive order — "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness"
— decreeing the name be changed in all federal agency documents.

These executive orders coincided with others related to climate
and renewable energy: one paused offshore wind permits, while
another promised to "unleash" high emission oil-, gas- and
coal-fired electricity. Meanwhile, in the first weeks of the
administration, any mentions of climate change were scrubbed from
multiple federal agency websites, including the Department of
Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Since it was not "technically possible" to remove all "forbidden"
content from the voluminous climate.gov platform, Lindsey said
whole sections were removed, including the latest version of the
"Climate Literacy Guide," which was authored by the now-disbanded
US Global Change Research Program.

While much of climate.gov's original content remains online,
Lindsey speculates that only information deemed "acceptable" —
such as blogs about the polar vortex that do not directly relate
to climate change science — will be migrated to a new online
location before the rest of the site is potentially shut down.

Can climate experts go it alone?

The first part of the plan for the nonprofit climate.us is to
rebirth a complete version of climate.gov by restoring all
censored content.

Then, if it can acquire adequate funding, a new editorial and
content team will continuously update the site with the latest
climate data and information, including maps and graphics for
reuse.

The platform has said it will counter the Trump administration's
war on climate science through a collaboration between experts,
educators, organizations, universities and civic leaders.

"They're hiding the truth. We're fighting back," runs the
climate.us slogan.

But "public donations" — which have already hit $85,000 — will be
the key for the site to become fully functioning, said Lindsey.

"So many people are excited about this effort, so many people say
it is giving them hope. And that gives me hope."

https://www.dw.com/en/fired-climate-scientists-crucial-extreme-weather-data-cut-us-president-donald-trump-v3/a-73977766
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This week's images ...

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A boat bothy (shelter) at Guardswell Farm in Perthshire,
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A streetlight on High Street in South Queensferry, Scotland.
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A cruise ship sailing in front of Ailsa Craig, an island in the
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Leaves beginning to change colors at Wyalusing State Park in
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Examples from the Glass Pumpkin Patch at the Minnesota Landscape
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The vine and seeds of Dioscorea japonica (wild yam) at the Kobe
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A Cabbage White Butterfly at Amherst State Park, New York,
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A Nicole rose of the Floribunda type from the rose garden at the
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Our painting of the week is "Landscape n°44", acrylic and ink on
paper, by Iban Van der Zeyp (Belgium, b. 1969).
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