Facepalm! NOAA should focus on weather, not climate change, says Rep. Lamar Smith

[HuckleB]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0318/NOAA-should-focus-on-weather-not-climate-change-says-Rep.-Lamar-Smith

"The US House of Representatives subcommittee on environment held a budget hearing Wednesday to discuss the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s funding during fiscal year 2017. NOAA's $5.9 billion request, a $77 million increase from fiscal year 2016, led to greater discussion on the agency's overall purpose in the US government.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, to which the subcommittee on the environment answers, butted heads yet again with NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, questioning the administration’s climate change research.

The Smith vs. Sullivan feud goes back to last June, when NOAA scientists published a study arguing that a "pause" in global warming never existed. As a strict climate change denier (and someone who has received over $600,000 in donations from the fossil fuel industry), Rep. Smith insisted that the authors fudged the data and subpoenaed NOAA, demanding that all internal communication between the study’s authors be turned over to his committee for examination. Sullivan has since refused, citing the importance of scientific autonomy.

Smith devoted almost his entire 729-word opening statement what he called NOAA’s biased climate change agenda. NOAA's budget request included $190 million for climate change research: a little more than three percent of the administration’s overall proposed budget.

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Friggin' ugly scumminess. Ugh.

[LiberalArkie]

1. Some of these R's used to be intelligent. Have they been giving them lobotomies at their

private retreats?

[2naSalit]

2. Or "something" in the water?

[NCjack]

4. The Republicans are not so much stupid as they are bought. An ethical

Republican is one who has been bought and stays bought, regardless of pesky facts.

[HuckleB]

6. Indeed. Something in the brain has to allow this.

I think they have to actually believe this stuff, and work hard to continue to believe it.

Dunning Kruger gone wild, I guess.

[Skittles]

14. they are both stupid AND bought

[2naSalit]

3. I propose

an IQ and mental health exam for all federal elected personnel. I'm really ticked off about these ignorant and mentally disturbed people inhabiting our halls of governance.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Interesting idea,

Smith is typical of the denial class of nut jobs. Must be a bitch to wake every day a get your talking points from some Koch Brothers think tank.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, God forbid we examine scientific claims

I mean, if you're going to go all evidence and observation and reproducibility of results, how in the world are you going to be able to bamboozle people with pleasant-sounding lies? Perhaps Rep. Smith would be better off chairing the House Magical Thinking Committee; he doesn't seem well-suited to be on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

[HuckleB]

8. It's very close to the ban against government funded studies on other issues.

Somehow, Congress doesn't want to know how the world works.

It really is a fiction-based entity.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. This from people who think if it snows in Chicago in January

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that proves climate change is a hoax. At least, that's what the "scientist" from Exxon told them.

[HuckleB]

13. Well, that's what they want to believe, very badly.

It certainly shows a lack of understanding of science, the world, and more.

[yuiyoshida]

10. No one ever said you had to be

smart, to be a Politician. Amazing ne?

[HuckleB]

12. Indeed. -eom-

[lpbk2713]

11. Yeah. Don't do all that "scientific" stuff.

Go ahead, ask him how old planet Earth is.

[spanone]

15. lamar probably readily admits he's not a scientist, yet he makes scientific judgements all the time

based on his own fucking ignorance.

[HuckleB]

16. Indeed.