Posted on 02/08/2010 12:59:27 PM PST by bestintxas
The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
"Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat," Locke said Monday at a news conference.
Lubchenco added, "Climate change is real, it's happening now." She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.
NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Most atmospheric scientists believe that warming is largely due to human actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
Researchers and leaders from around the world met last month in Denmark to discuss ways to reduce climate-warming emissions, and a follow-up session is planned for later this year in Mexico.
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Forrest Gump is a genius compared to Barrak Gump.
watch later
You won’t regret it... :-)
Certainly not in the public eye. Most idiots know how to lie low...at least Obama got the "lie" part down pat.
Fixed for accuracy.
It all makes sense when you understand that it has nothing to do with climate. That is a but a convenient cover for what they really desire: Power. Money. Control.
I’m starting to wonder if Obama is trying to throw the midterms and the 2012 election. The timing of this announcement is even more idiotic than the religion of the Warmers. He couldn’t wait for a nice, sunny, unseasonably warm day to make the announcement, as opposed to a day when Washington DC is under 3 feet of snow?
Maybe Barry has placed big bets on Intrade that the GOP will take Congress in the November elections.
Well, none of the other agencies have been able to make the earth warm up.
Thanks for the great information.
Just think of all the jobs created and saved by this worthy endeavor.
oh yeah..just what we need.
Another damn agency when what we REALLY need is to abolish the OTHER 117 agencies full of deadwood.
Maybe Obama should have to shovel his own “driveway”..... then it would hit him that the snow is “real”.
This has nothing to do with Obama’s intellect or judgment. It’s about pushing Socialism forward. It’s about persistence.
Yeah, that's right. And that's how the "problem" should be approached... and not on the basis that someone is stupid or intellectually-challenged (LOL...), because in this case, that's not the problem... :-)
Maybe Obama should have to shovel his own “driveway”..... then it would hit him that the snow is “real”.
LOL... but if you look at the calendar, you'll see it's still "Winter" -- and I don't know about you, but I figure to get snow in winter... :-)
Yep - it's as real as global warming, the Club of Rome, the population bomb, global freezing, nuclear winter and all the other liberal bullsh*t.
I agree, but man has zero, zilch, nada to do with it.
Obama Proposes New Global Warming Agency because the federal government just isn’t big enough already /sarc
- JP
>> and not on the basis that someone is stupid or intellectually-challenged (LOL...)
Are “you saying” the advancement of Socialism is inconsequential when realized through stupidity?
Are “you saying” the advancement of Socialism is inconsequential when realized through stupidity?
I'm saying that the people who are in charge of advancing it are not the stupid ones... LOL...
Gotcha. The hysteria was throwing me off :)
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