Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 04/18/2015 3:46:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Republican lawmakers chastised the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Friday, saying the agency’s obsession with global warming is undercutting space exploration programs.
“There are 13 other agencies involved in climate change research, but only one that is responsible for space exploration,” Texas Rep. Lamar Smith told NASA administrator Charles Bolden in a hearing.
“The administration continues to starve NASA’s exploration programs to fund a partisan environmental agenda,” Smith said. “NASA simply deserves better.”
Republicans are concerned that NASA is spending too much money on Earth sciences while cutting funding for space exploration. President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget requests asks for $18.53 billion, a $519 million increase from 2015, but lawmakers worry the president’s budget “underfunds” certain space exploration programs.
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Unconstitutional federal funding of global warming issues gets us back to the 17th Amendment.
More specifically, given that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for PC global warming purposes, the feds have no constitutional authority tax and spend for such a purpose.
But since low-information voters go home after voting for their favorite senators and watch football, voters are oblivious to the major problem that corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional legislation like global warming-related appropriations bills.
And who knows where such unaccountable funding actually ends up? Such funding should never have left the states.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
A UN person told the truth once and said global warming was their most important tool to destroy capitalism (I prefer the term “Free Markets” to karl marx’s term “capitalism”).
Good for Rep. Smith!
Hey he and the republicans voted money to the government to do this. Hypocrit.
NASA has been one of the worst promoters of this junk science. Hard to believe you did not know this, but welcome aboard. Better late than never. This just shows us how far we have to go in the information wars.
Global Warming on Free Republic
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