Do We Really Need a National Climate Service?

coondoggie writes "I suppose it's natural for Washington to try and wrap issues up in a tidy legislative package for bureaucratic purposes (or perhaps other things more nefarious). But one has to wonder if we really need another government-led group, especially when it comes to the climate and all the sometimes controversial information that entails. But that's what is under way. Today the House Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing on the need for a National Climate Service, that could meet the increased demand for climate information, the committee said. The NCS would provide a single point of contact of information climate forecasts and support for planning and management decisions by federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; and the private sector."

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How is hyperbole

[Shivetya]

insightful? Or are there just certain buzzwords that people are compelled to rate higher?

The future of our climate isn't being decided by corporations, it is being decided by an overly politicized system. Contrary laws and NIMBY laws are what are screwing us. I won't even try to list what is beyond our control outside our borders that may just undo anything we can try.

Look, they have pushed this line of thought for so long that they are locked in. They have to create a new office, which in turn can issue all sorts of "findings of fact", so that they can continue their agenda. After all, a National Climate office wouldn't release opinion now would they? There would never be the slightest bias in presentation of what is fact or how to read numbers would there?

Get real.

Lets see what they are doing to help the environment?

1. Pushing new incentives for bio fuels while not curtailing the fraud of corn based ethanol.
2. Ignoring know safe energy production of nuclear because certain people in the Administration hate it, let alone the moonbats in Congress. Gee, if it works for France and even Germany is considering it it might be a good idea!
3. Cap and Trade . Backdoor tax on the poor and middle class without calling it that.
4. Remember MBTE ... thank you Al for poisoning all are water supplies.
5. I am quite sure the Military isn't friendly to the environment on a whole; but I excuse a lot of what they do.

Sorry, the government does more damage when political regulations being implemented rather than scientific. The majority of their regulations seek to curry favor of specific groups or to pay them back for their activities related to elections. The preponderance of evidence against many forms of man made global warming is building faster than support for it.

No, its the moonbats coming to roost. They are going to create a new government bureaucracy where we already have more than one which does the same job. Instead of trying to find ways to save the American tax payer money they look for ways to guilt them or waste their money.

Re:Obviously it's a good thing.

[Enry]

Obvious troll is obvious.

But back to the point, I'd take the word of Al Gore over that of Dick Cheney any day.

And Soros? Really? Go look up the kinds of fun things Richard Mellon Scafie has been up to for the past 20 years. Makes the money Soros contributed look like a drop in the bucket.

Does the military want it ?

[bmajik]

Is it necessary to defend the united states? No?

Then why is it the federal government's job?

Weather forecasting has its roots in military strategy. To the extent that climate forecasting might keep the country safe -- safe from real threats -- I'd support it being a job of the federal government.

I wish people would give up the idea that there is some dispassionate public interest that should be accorded to "scientists", while people holding the same education doing the same work that _dont_ milk from the public teat are shills, etc.

I'll be plain: nobody in the federal government serves _me_. You could fire the entire lot of them and it would be at least 6 months before I noticed. Well, i'd notice all the extra money that is no longer being extorted from me pretty much immediatley. Other than that? Not sure I'd miss em.

Anyway, I'm _shocked_ that a bunch of publicly funded climate activists are pandering for more money and power for climate activism.

I look forward to paying the salaries of a bunch of guys that will argue with each other over how important each of them is. James Hansen really needs some new competition, let's create a new three letter agency!

Re:Obviously it's a good thing.

[teflaime]

Completely off topic, but Dick Cheney's view of the world is just as far from reality as Al Gore's.

That's the problem with extremists. They are all completely full of shit (and you can't even compost it). The problem with stupid people is they believe what extremists have to say.