Congress kills request for National Climate Service

[alp227]

Source: Wash. Post

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wanted to reshuffle its offices to establish a National Climate Service akin to the agency’s National Weather Service. It asked for no new funding to do so.

But in a political climate where talk of the earthly kind of climate can be radioactive, the answer in last week’s budget deal was “no.” Congress barred NOAA from launching what the agency bills as a “one-stop shop” for climate information.

Demand for such data is skyrocketing, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco told Congress earlier this year. Farmers are wondering when to plant. Urban planners want to know whether groundwater will stop flowing under subdivisions. Insurance companies need climate data to help them set rates.

But the climate service, first floated under President George W. Bush, became predictably politicized.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/congress-nixes-national-climate-service/2011/11/18/gIQAxYvIgN_story.html

[tabatha]

1. Morons. Idiots.

I bet 5th graders in a third world country are smarter than they are.

[Bandit]

14. Smarter maybe but certainly not richer..

These people have sold their souls long ago.. They are not allowed to use any brain power even if they in fact had some.. They toe the line and receive plenty of "campaign" contributions for doing so....

[wtmusic]

2. You know things are bad when a Dubya proposal is too liberal. nt

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[sakabatou]

3. *facepalm*

[sakabatou]

4. dupe

[Turborama]

5. Correction: Koch's kill request for National Climate Service n/t

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[Little Tich]

8. Congress kills a lot of good proposals these days...

[slay]

9. We are to the point of denying science that is desperately needed - something must change

this war on science is so wrong - most of us can't even understand such a thing. we have reached a new low I'm afraid. seems we reach another one every few days. :(

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[truthisfreedom]

11. I can predict how this will end. Obama will devise an executive order that will

clear the National Climate Service, and all of the rethugs will wet their collective panties in response. And the world will live happily ever after, except for the part where we wrecked the planet.

[No Elephants]

12. Whatever happened to that great idea of privatizing weather reports.

As I recall, Joe Scarborough supported a plan wherein the U.S. would do all the work of predicting weather, especially major weather events, but then to confine the info to services that would then sell that info to entities like TV stations.

Gotta love Joe Schmoe and his friends, figuring out a way for the 1 %to make money on things like hurricanes on the taxpayer's dime.

And, we'd probably have to bail them out if they lost money, too, but Joe never mentioned that. I'm just speculating.

[Roland99]

13. Santorum was getting plenty of special interest money to push for that when he was in office