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."

Comments

Future predictions

[Anonymous Coward]

so, let's see the predictions from the national climate service.

(in a democratic administration)
Plan for warmer temperatures. higher sea levels, some deserts getting a lot of rain, some areas getting a lot less rain.
and we can change the climate to make things better

(in a republican adminstartion)
climate will be about the same, it will be hot during the summer, cold during the winter, floods will occur, droughts will occur.
and no-one can do much about it.

Re:Future predictions

[Anonymous Coward]

The really crazy thing about climate change that no one seems to be mentioning about is that it's completely Al Gore's idea. Nobody before or after Al Gore, and certainly not any publishing climate scientists, have said anything about average global temperature increases. In that sense, it is perfectly accurate to talk about it as "Al Gore's Theory," make (hilarious) jokes about how we need to ask Al Gore what the weather is like, etc, etc.

Manbearpig?

[kimvette]

So the hunt for manbearpig continues?

Re:Great

[Zironic]

As far as I know all you have to do is ask for the model to get it.

Re:Premature

[QuoteMstr]

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences disagrees with you. The American Association for the Advancement of Science disagrees with you. The American Geophysical Union disagrees with you. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disagrees with you

Typical liberal scum. You think your out-of-touch ivory tower "experts" can beat the common sense my mother and Glenn Beck taught me? You're just scary numbers, charts, and other things Real Americans like me don't understand to trick us. What you really want is to the destroy the America that our founding fathers knew and loved. Benjamin Franklin wouldn't have believed this climate change nonsense. He would have said it's our God-given right to release as much dioxin and carbon dioxide as we want. We've been doing it for 100 years and the world is the same as when our Lord created it.

Anyone who wants to destroy jobs by moving to new technology is a sinner and a tyrant, and wants to turn this great God-loving country of ours into a socialist fascist slavery hell. Thank God for Fox News to tell me the truth.

Re:When...

[Third Position]

I'd say it's all about creating another bureaucracy for democratic party patronage and to act as a mouthpiece for liberal/democrat ideas about climate change. Think of it as kind of like giving Al Gore his own personal branch of government so he can spew his nonsense on the taxpayer's dime.

Good point. Say, where has Al Gore been hiding lately, anyway? He's been mighty quiet since Climategate broke. If you have any free money laying around, you might want to buy stock in tar and feathers. Something tells me those are two commodities that are going to be in big demand real soon now.

Re:Premature

[Anonymous Coward]

I wholly agree with you! It's a liberal fraud designed to rid us of our guns, too. Just because bullets give off carbon dioxide, the Marxist Socialist commie pinkos think they can steal our god-granted right to bear arms! Well I say, they can have my guns when they tear them from my cold, dead hands! Global climate change is a myth! I was going to protest this in a letter to my local newspaper, but there's 6 feet of snow outside my door and I can't get outside. Makes me so mad I'm firing my gun at the ceiling in frustration. Toyota! Dinosaurs! Mayan Calendar! PROOF!!!!! Where's your god now, Al Gore?

Re:Long predictions

[Undead Waffle]

I read that as "designated hitler rule" and realized we need a designated hitler rule.

Re:The Scientific Quandary

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry, but anybody who thinks the current amount of snow in DC disproves global warming has absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion.

I'm not a denier. I'm more apathetic than anything. But you guys shot yourselves in the foot with years of warming, melting ice, warming, greenhouse gasses, warming, trapped heat, and "the planet has a fever!"

*You* guys played up the whole warming thing, so now we have some cold, and you expect the general public to not be skeptical and ask WTF is going on? I'm sorry, but every person in the world is not a climatologist, or has a deep understanding of ocean currents or whatever. Some people have to do, like, other jobs.

This is how it looks to the average person:

Global Warming Advocate: We're making prediction X which will support our theory.
Man On The Street: OK

(one year later)

Man On The Street: Well, instead of X we got -X (or Z or Q or ...)
Global Warming Advocate: Yeah, well, that proves our theory, too. Don't question me!
Man On the Street: o.O?
Global Warming Advocate: STFU! You're stupid!
Man On the Street: KTHX. Bye!
Global Warming Advocate: Why won't anyone listen?

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And so on.

A good example of X would be seasonal hurricane predictions.