U.S. Congress Aims to Cut Climate Science

[Ichingcarpenter]

Proposed cuts to NOAA and NASA target climate change research in particular

Congress is considering spending bills that would significantly cut funding for key climate change research by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2017.

Among the losers: the oldest carbon dioxide observatories on the planet, the ability to track fossil fuel emissions in the United States and a program to study ocean acidification.

“We are asking for a small amount of money to do all the right things,” said James Butler, director of global monitoring at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL).

The spending bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee last week allocates $128 million for NOAA’s climate research, a 20 percent cut from the previous year. The bill allocates $1.7 billion for NASA’s earth science division, a 12 percent cut from 2016.

Republican appropriators termed climate and ocean services research “lower-priority,” which earned them a rebuke from Democrats......MORE


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[Shadowflash]

1. Hey, it worked for gun violence info gathering.

If you don't like the facts just stop the information gathering. It's the GOP way.

[Dustlawyer]

2. As I sit here through I don't know how many consecutive days of thunderstorms and

floods here in Southeast Texas, all I can do is shake my head at what our system of legalized bribery is causing to be done to our environment. The oceans are dying very quickly with the increase in acidification starting to wipe out the Phytoplancton. You know, the organisms that supply 90% of the planet's oxygen! Environmentalists have been marginalized as "tree huggers" so others will be less likely to get involved.

This is why Bernie is fighting. He knows that we must first get the money out of our elections in order to properly address Climate Change. Publicly Funded Elections would do just that!

The signs of Climate Change are all around us now. The Great Barrier Reef almost dying out over one summer. Fish stocks so low we are getting reduced to Aqua-culture, which has its own pollution problems. We have had 3-4 100 year floods in the last 5 years here in Texas alone, before that the most severe drought.

Please feel the Bern so we don't feel the burn!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Its almost like that old Sci fi TV show ''the invaders'

''They Live'' or 'V' 'that its so bizarre what they are doing to this planet purposely they must not be human.

LOL.


Don't reptiles prefer warmer temperatures for their habitats?

This insanity we are witnessing from them in regards to the planet can not be just about 'money' when they too have children or grand children.


Maybe I watch and read too much Sci/Fi

[truebrit71]

3. Makes perfect sense...

Idiots.

[pscot]

5. Complete fucking morons

[GliderGuider]

6. Who ARE those guys? nt