"I understand that CSIRO is undertaking a major restructuring that may lead to the closure of AeroSpan [CSIRO's partner program]," Dr Holben wrote in the letter addressed to Alex Wonhas, a senior CSIRO executive, and dated May 1, 2016.

"The purpose of this letter is to express my dismay about this, on behalf of NASA and the global aerosol community," he said.

Fairfax Media understands the AeroSpan program – which includes eight automated monitoring sites across Australia – is earmarked to be shut along with other micro-meteorology research done by CSIRO's Yarralumla staff in Canberra. (See CSIRO map below of the eight sites.)

Understanding aerosols - the distribution and character of airborne particles and clouds  - "represent the single greatest source of uncertainty in climate simulations", Dr Holben said.'

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/dismay-nasa-appeals-to-csiro-no...

Oh dear. It seems the science is nowhere near settled.