Climate scientists adjust as Trump builds team of oil allies

OANN ^ | December 15, 2016 | Peter Henderson

[Eddie01]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Climate scientists worried that President-elect Donald Trump will slash their budgets and sideline their research...

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“I think it is maybe really necessary to refocus what you are doing and how you are labeling it,”

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Federal funding for climate change research, technology and international assistance hit $11.6 billion in 2014, from $2.4 billion in 1993,

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...replaced the politically charged term “climate change” with “global change”...

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Climate scientist Ben Sanderson, also at NCAR, told Reuters he is applying to renew funding for assessing uncertainty in climate change. “Now the proposal would have to be defensible without referring to climate change explicitly, so to talk about weather risks in general,” he said.

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But Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist who writes for online magazine Slate, has taken efforts to protect scientists and their work a step further.

He spearhead an effort, with the support of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto, to let scientists move their data onto publicly available non-government servers. The project, called “DataRefuge,” is intended to eliminate the chances of political interference with the data, he said.

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Current Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told scientists at a conference in San Francisco this week they must confront climate change deniers and speak up if Trump tries to sideline them.

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Other scientists were dealing with the stress of a new administration using humor. University of South Florida glaciologist Jason Gulley said his team had a list of joke projects for science under Trump. “How could we weaponize glaciers?” he asked, and what is the best real estate currently hidden under Greenland ice sheets.

(Additional reporting by Valerie Volcovici in Washington and Irene Klotz in San Francisco; editing by Richard Valdmanis and Phil Berlowitz)

[knarf]

The most important take away from President Trump is his very basic idea of a lot of money has been wasted.

We heard over and over how he has a history of under budget and ahead of time.

He used airports to illustrate his understanding and to get that message across and he has said many times, the money spent or given for/to ______________ would have rebuilt our infrastructure, decaying schools, airports, roads, bridges (he used many examples), TWICE.

ANYONE paying attention to anything even remotely politically financial in the last 50 years has at least once thought, "We're sending $$$$ to ______ for THAT ? ... WTF is wrong with (Washington, Republicans, Democrats, president, congress __ etc.)

And Trump speaks plainly, "Dubais' airport looks like the best restaurant and our airport looks like it's been bombed out"

November 8, 2016 was exorcism day in America.

[bigbob]

“sobering up” might be a good substitute for “adjusting”

[jackibutterfly]

"They had it way too good, for far too long. As Gore put it in 2000, “The debate is over.”"

Yeah, so much for "settled science". Ha!

[Brian Griffin]

“...and international assistance hit $11.6 billion in 2014”

How about some assistance for domestic taxpayers instead?

[Eddie01]

“$12 billion/year would pay for lots of solar panels.”

...or fix crumbling infrastructure

[CincyRichieRich]

I’d love to see Trump tweet the east landia (sp?) Data and evidence of lying and fabrication.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Irony, thy name is Leo! *SMIRK*

[EQAndyBuzz]

“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Climate scientists worried that President-elect Donald Trump will slash their budgets and sideline their research...”

As he should. The debate is over and there is a consensus. That’s 11 billion that can be used to help with fossil fuel projects that are desperately needed to offset the impact of global cooling.

Since the consensus offered no solution to the problem they caused.

[Da Coyote]

Indeed.

Climate “scientists” are adjusting the adjustments to the adjustments they made on data so that they can still claim that any change is due to CO2.

Not buying it, Obamaholes.

And I and many others have the tech credentials to take you D grade science project punters on, if you’ve got the cojones.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I’d like an accounting across every agency. How much public money did each contribute to studying or to advocating or to supporting catastrophic climate alarmism? We need to know the scope of the taxpayer investment last year and over the last decade. How much has been spent? What is our benefit for the money spent? What are the suggested remedies? What will the costs be for those remedies?

[Robert DeLong]

Nothing could keep me in those conditions. I hate it when it falls below 60.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wimp! :)

I love having four Seasons. I’ve lived elsewhere and I really miss that.

It just takes some pre-planning, as do most things in life. Besides, we love outdoor winter stuff like snowshoeing and riding our snowmobiles. :)

[Impala64ssa]

“I think it is maybe really necessary to refocus what you are doing and how you are labeling it,”
In other words, we're on to you, we got yer number, we're hip to your jive, we dig where you're coming from, we smell what yer cooking, we know how ya roll.

Jan 19, 1977 snow on the ground in Tampa, they called it global cooling. Then a series of scorching hot summers in the east and a few years later they called it global WARMING. Now it's climate change. And CA is taxing cow farts as a hairbrained scheme to combat climate change. There's $$$ to be made in this racket. Hey scammers gotta do what they gotta do to make a buck.

[Robert DeLong]

Wimp! :)

Absolutely. 8>). I've had my fill of the 4 seasons. We have 3 seasons. 1 long hot one, 1 same length as the long hot one, moderate one (broken into 2 times of the year), and 1 short much colder one. It's the last one I hate, but it's still not as bad as the one you experience for much longer as well.

[hal ogen]

These integrity-free “scientists” are anti-social political whores whose only concern is how to get their next taxpayer grant. What criminal frauds.

[LouAvul]

I think it's a case of one liberal fool braying to other liberal fools. None of these people are capable of researching truth. They simply listen to the same misleading reports. It's the liberal way.

Then they're astounded that they're wrong. Hildebeast losing the election is a classic example. Those cupcakes sill can't believe they're so wrong.

I also saw it on a couple media outlets. Which newspaper I forget, but the head cheese chastised the low level journalists for being so far off the mark as to what America demands.

[Vic S]

Trump also plans to sell about 1 Trillion in land leases for oil drilling to pay for infrastructure improvements and turn the US into an oil exporter. Hey, Canada and Mexico are, so why not the US as well?

That should upset the Dems and the Bankers. Fun times.

[Dick Bachert]

Wow!...powerful!
Looks like the SANE ADULTS are back in charge. THANK GOD!

http://manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2016/12/13/some-predictions-for-the-future-in-the-climate-game

[vette6387]

Well Diana, It got all the way down to 31 here in the SF Bay Area last night, but right now it’s 43 and clear. And that’s the coldest its been since last winter.

[FamiliarFace]

It’s been this way since at least the early 80s, maybe even before that. Researchers go where the money is to be had, it’s how they make a living. True scientists research no matter the money, for the love of science. For far too many, research is just a way to earn a living. Find the things they want you to find. If you only look for the things you want to find, you’ll never be disappointed. Confirmation bias, that’s all this “climate research” is.