In an article published in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the unprecedented environmental and economic challenges facing the nation. They propose forming the new agency by merging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). See complete story here in Science Daily.
One of the proponents said: “It isn’t often that we are offered a real opportunity to make government work better. But the modest, sensible reorganization proposed here brings a new science-rich focus on some of our biggest contemporary challenges.”
Hmm, that quote brings this image to mind:
And who would lead this monster new unelected branch of government masquerading as a scientific insitution?
James Hansen.
The USA’s own Trofim Lysenko.
The image says it all.
Brilliant.
Philip_B
You’ve got that right. One of my previous self-employment careers was auditing hospitals for overcharges for clients (insurance companies). I told daughter when she was expecting her first child to keep a close eye on her bills and hold on to her wallet, because she was going to be egregiously overcharged even with insurance. She did not believe me and was not sufficiently motivated to audit her charges.
With her second child, money was tighter. She went over every charge for medication, procedures, etc. She was shocked to discover that her obstetrician’s office alone had overcharged her by $800 that she had paid out of her own pocket.
I shudder to think of the errors, some deliberate and some by incompetence, that are not challenged in areas that are not audited.
Would NOAA and USGS even want to merge? Government agencies rarely want to merge. The head of at least one agency would no longer head an agency.
Oh cool. All Jim Hansen needs is someone with a geologist’s sense of time to point out he needs to look a timeframe that is 1000X longer. And another geologist to point out some of the catastrophes that put to shame anything anthropogenic CO2 can dish out.
I’m not a geologist, but I like to claim that the biggest catastrophe that has affected life on Earth was the development of photosynthesis. The shift from a reducing atmosphere to an oxidizing one forced the dominant lifeforms (bacteria) underground. They’re still around as anaerobic bacteria, and still play a vital role, but their niche became a lot smaller.
Photosynthesis also made CO2 a trace gas.
I think geologists have accepted that the Sun is the cause of the global warming which will destroy life on Earth when the Sun turns into a red giant. I doubt Hansen’s computers can handle geological time scales…or contemporary time scales.
Ric Werme:
AGW is alive and well in the USGS.