The issue focused on Russian technology research and development to better study climate change.

And researchers said scientists had already agreed that scientific studies would have to be conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. But scientists did not expect NASA to accept these findings as science.

"If there was any scientist who thought climate change was real and scientifically valid, we'd take them down," researcher Howard Kuperman told Science News. "But now we're talking about facts here."

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