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Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US
Standing Bear writes "NPR reports that 140 years after the creation of the National Weather Service, the US government is proposing the creation of a similar service that will provide long-term projections of how climate will change. 'We are actually getting millions of requests a year already about: How should coastal cities plan for sea-level rise? How should various other agencies in the federal government or in state governments make plans for everything from roads to managing water supplies?' says NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco. 'And a lot of that is going to be changing as the climate changes.' Under the plan, the new NOAA Climate Service would incorporate some of the agency's existing laboratories and research programs, including the National Climatic Data Center, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the National Weather Service's Historical Climate Network. Meanwhile, as plans for the new climate service shape up, NOAA launched a new Web site, climate.gov, designed to provide access to a wide range of climate information."
You were doing do well until you mouthed off the GOP line. A pitiful sight, son.
So, let's see...here you teabaggin' yahoos are complaining, on the basis of Glenn-Beck-interpreted email hacks, about how climate scientists are supposedly manipulating data and suppressing stuff that agrees with you, and in lieu of actually responding to what I wrote, you try to hide it with troll ratings. Speaks volumes, really.
Kythe
What's your sign?
To anyone that seriously believes that it's ok to do extreme economic damage to the US' and other Western nations' economies when many if not most Western economies are near the brink of collapse anyways, not to mention cause untold suffering and death particularly among the poorest people, based on corrupt datasets, questionable models, and ideologically- and economically-driven scientists and politicians that have a stake in promoting "climate change" I say;
"Here's YOUR sign!"
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
I award you a comprehension fail.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
getting all bitter and attacking anyone that questions global warming by calling them "deniers"
They are deniers. They deny AGW. A person who denies something, in English, is a "denier".
and quoting Al Gores fantasy film isn't going to get you any credability.
Wow, you really *are* obsessed with Gore, that whenever anyone mentions the word "inconvenient", that means that their entire post is really cribbed from Al Gore and therefore invalid. Just... wow.
the people publishing the peer reviewed articles won't publish anything anti global warming.
Right -- it's a giant conspiracy, and the most prestigious scientific journals on the planet (Science, Nature, etc) are all in on it. Can you see why it's hard to take you people seriously?
climate gate you've got evidence that "peers" are in fact pushing an agenda of their own and actively seeking to derail any descenting views.
What about SwiftHack -- for thinking McIntyre and McKitrick was crap? Sorry, but almost the entire climate science community thinks that, and that it never should have been published. They're just generally more tactful when they think what they say is going to be public. The papers' conclusions were the result of selectively hand-narrowing down the datasets to only ones that will give you a straight line. The red noise claim is easily demonstrable nonsense.
Kneel Before Christ!
"We" are hard working people who are not about to turn over our hard earned cash to a cabal of governments selling a load of snake oil and pushing for wild ass tax schemes to "save the earth".
Day be day your arguments fall apart. The IPPC (or whatever they call this waste of ink and paper) report was "God" at first. Everyone pointed to it. Now we know it's mostly made up garbage.
So you fall back on this and that. "Pay no attention to our first lame ass arguments and evidence...take a look at THIS!"
If you people were at all serious about AGW, you would be pushing unrelentingly for nuclear power as it is the only plausible way out of the mess you claim we are in.
Since you don't, then I am unlikely to believe your chicken little fantasies and am even less likely to agree to your totalitarian solutions.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.