From the House Appropriations Committee: Summary — Final Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution: PDF
Page 2: Commerce, Justice, Science: “This section of the CR also prohibits funding for: the establishment of a Climate Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”
Here is the dream website of the NOAA Climate Service.
Now, NOAA can get back to essential services like severe weather warnings, hurricane hunting, and fisheries.
Hopefully people won’t die, as Bill Hopkins, the NWS Employees Organization vice president predicted last month (WUWT post link) if the House’s original budget cuts were implemented:
Bill Hopkins, vice president of the NWS Employees Organization, said the public may be in real danger a House bill is passed that would slash The National Weather Service’s budget by $126 million.”It could potentially lead to a loss of lives, not necessarily in San Antonio, but it could in other parts of the county,” Hopkins said.Local NWS offices would likely deal with rolling closures and furloughs, leaving the Corpus Christi NWS office to take over issuing warnings for the San Antonio area.”Not only will they be watching your area, but they will also be watching their area, and there will be no increase in personnel to do this,” Hopkins said.The national NWS office said President Obama has opposed to such harsh cuts. Hopkins said the cuts would significantly affect those along the Gulf Coast.”The National Hurricane Center would be reduced to 32 hours a week,” Hopkins said.There would also be far fewer hurricane hunter flights, which are often vital parts of hurricane forecasts.According to Hopkins, large amounts of weather data would be lost.”Can you imagine flying into an airport and they lose all their surface data? There’s really drastic impacts in this cut,” Hopkins said.
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One small step for man…..
James H says:
April 12, 2011 at 7:28 pm
“What would happen if NOAA was defunded in its entirety?”
I don’t think anyone is calling for defunding NOAA, but this is a compelling question for specific programs within NOAA. Some basic questions that should be asked include:
(1) What products are generated (e.g. long term forecasts, ENSO analyses, etc)?
(2) Are these products essential?
(3) Are specific products redundant? (in many cases – YES)
(4) Can some costs be shared with other groups?
(5) Can the programs be made more efficient?
Unfortunately, many of our government-sponsored CAGW science groups (like GISS) exist mainly to generate “peer-reviewed” research papers, which are subsequently hyped in press releases (as highlighted here at WUWT on a regular basis). This research helps further the careers of the scientists themselves, but is (in my opinion) of little use to the public.
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Brian says:
April 12, 2011 at 11:48 am
Climate change observations will continue under the NOAA, they just won’t call it the “Climate Service.” It’s quite important that they continue this research. These institutions are not going to roll over to a group of anti-science politicians, I’m sorry.
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I’m sorry but you lefty criminals who have high-jacked science to serve an anti-human Marxist master are the enemy of science, not those smart enough to be on to the scam. Science is a tool for evaluating truth, not for feeding a propaganda machine with convoluted lies. If you had any intelligence you would know this but any cognitive capability you may have been born with has been destroyed by that indoctrination program that passes for education.
As the new house majority maketh stride in defunding the climate change money pit, George Soros will be pulling in the reigns of his puppet president and senate majority he purchased. Support the continued house majority in expunging waste and those that propagate fear mongering for the social engineering agenda. NOAA needs to stick its charter.
The Global Warming gravy train SHOULD come to an end, if the science is settled and not debatable anymore. What’s the point of continuing to fund and research a known fact? The model theorists win! Game over! Pack it up and go home!
I hope the funding cut is not limited to 2011 fiscal year and will be automatically restored next year if there is no further action to eliminate the agency or permanently defund it. See “Spending Cut Hokum”:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259243797897836.html
Brian
Since when does a public official disobey the law in a democracy? These are not anti-science politicians – they are the representatives of “we the people,” whether or not you or I disagree with them.
If you want a dictatorship, say so; but you’d better hope you don’t get what you want.
You never know, I might be the dictator!!
Brian;
To a ‘crat, a pol is just a convenient source of funding. Which the ‘crat tries to bypass, and/or lock-in his appropriation, wherever possible.
As a source of guidance, direction, and goal-setting, all ‘crats have your arrogant attitude towards the merely ephemeral elected.
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