Posted on 04/02/2010 5:58:30 AM PDT by raptor22
NASA officials laid out plans Wednesday to boost spending on climate research substantially over the next five years, to make up for cutbacks during the Bush administration.
Edward Weiler, the agency's associate administrator for science, said that NASA's Earth Science budget will get a $2.4 billion, or 62 percent, increase through 2015. By that point, the program will have launched as many as 10 new missions, collecting information about ocean temperatures, ice coverage, ozone depletion and the central question of how much carbon dioxide is being released through human activities.
The budget increase reflects both a campaign promise by President Obama to focus far more on the threat of climate change and what NASA officials called a "philosophical shift" on the issue. From now on, they said, the agency will place a higher priority on collecting a broad range of interrelated climate data and to make sure it is done in a long-term, continuous way.
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What a lot of toadies - desperate for funding they are allowing themselves to join the Pseudoscience brigade.
Yeah, let’s now make NASA a hyper-partisan office. Let’s not focus on space exploration, let’s now focus on how we can do our part - on behalf of Obama - to further divide this country. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Obama isnt hiding this one. It’s right out there in the open for anyone to see.
Obama takes away the Space Flight program and replaces it with golbal warming science.
Anyone want to guess on what NASA will find ?
Hopefully NASA can determine once and for all if climate change causes hemorrhoids.
Yep, $$ coming from Uncle Sam tends to corrupt.
Wonderful — from making Americans’ lives better through technological innovations to clamping down on them by making us responsible for ‘climate change’.
Sir, I know NASA, and this ain’t no NASA...
So we go from a a nation exploring the universe to one who supports a fraud. Grants for ideology.
I assume Obozo thinks this is the way to expand science and government at the same time ... There are some things man is not capable of understanding, and one would be earth’s climate. Our wonder if Obozo army of useless pet eaters know that.
Can’t they take all that money and feed to poor, provide homes for the homeless, give us all healthcare... and a little drug money on the side?
Not caring or disclaiming any responsibility for the engines of destruction one has made or made possible is intellectually dishonest
Government always seeks to grow through any means possible;it is the people who must restrain the monster.
Ridiculous.
Artic ice coverage is back to normal!
Arctic Sea Ice March 2010 - Arctic Sea Ice Normal ...The Arctic sea ice extent is trending toward something extraordinary: Normal.
www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/arctic-sea-ice-0330?src=rss · Cached page
I have been saying this for some time. There are 2 ways for NASA to keep it’s funds from getting slashed.
1) Convince Washington that their work will help stop Global Warming. or
2) Convince American Men that they found the planet with the Green Orion Slave Girls see on Star Trek.
I’d rather fund a trip to Orion.
Only funding from evil business produces biases results. Government is filled with honest and unbiased men and women only seeking truth and justice. Snark.
From exploring the universe to now the ministry of propaganda in my lifetime. Sad.
After being exposed for lying about global warming data, NASA moves on.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be bestowing the Julian Simon Award on Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick for their efforts in debunking Mann's hockey stick at CEI's 2010 Dinner, June 17 at Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001.
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