Celebrate end of climate funding gravy train! Warmist Michael Mann calls Trump budget ‘an all-out assault on Earth’
Climate scientist: Trump budget is ‘an all-out assault on Earth’
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-noaa-scary-885d90b4b7c3?source=rss—-e5293acf313e—4
Defunding NOAA’s satellites will also hurt weather forecasts, jeopardizing public safety, experts warn.Credit: Tom Toles, reprinted with permissionDonald Trump’s “see no evil” approach to climate change became dangerously real this week.A four-page White House budget memo secured by The Washington Post reveals the Trump administration wants a 17 percent cut in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s overall budget — with the deepest cuts coming from earth observation. NOAA studies the atmosphere and oceans — often using satellites — to better understand climate and weather.Under the draft Trump plan, NOAA’s satellite program would be cut by more than a half billion dollars. These cuts would be “devastating” both to NOAA and the United States, extreme-weather expert Dr. Kevin Trenberth told ThinkProgress.“All of the major fronts in advancing weather forecasting and El Nino forecasts come from climate research involving interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean, and land surface and moisture flows. Satellite data are a vital part of this enterprise as well,” he said.These cuts would be particularly dangerous given that the Trump team has suggested eliminating NASA’s Earth observation program and shifting its work over to NOAA. According to Bob Walker, a Trump senior campaign adviser, NASA should focus on exploration and studying deep space, not “politically correct environmental monitoring.”Apparently, the only kind of satellites team Trump likes are those that point away from Earth and thus can’t see and report on our changing climate. Who cares if those satellites are also critical for agricultural forecasting, disaster planning, weather prediction, and predicting the path of extreme events like hurricanes, tsunamis, and tornadoes?“Cutting NOAA’s satellite budget will compromise NOAA’s mission of keeping Americans safe from extreme weather and providing forecasts that allow businesses and citizens to make smart plans,” former NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco told the Post. NOAA’s former chief scientist Rick Spinrad said such cuts “would virtually guarantee jeopardizing the safety of the American public.”Climate scientist Michael Mann’s new book says climate denial is ‘driving us crazy’“This is what happens when ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers run the show,” said Michael Mann, referring to the country’s two biggest funders of climate science disinformation.“It’s an all-out assault on Earth,” the renowned climate scientist, who recently co-authored The Madhouse Effect with Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles, told ThinkProgress. It’s time for scientists “to stand up and be counted,” he said.Climate scientist: Trump budget is ‘an all-out …
Analysis: One More Reason To Eliminate NOAA’s Climate Funding – ‘Fake climate graphs’
By Tony Heller
Here his one of NOAA’s fakes climate graphs, which shows an increase in the area of the US hit by unusually hot weather.
The actual data shows the exact opposite. The percent of the US hit by hot weather has plummeted over the past century.
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Trump To Cut Climate Programs At EPA And NOAA
…White House wants to cut NOAA budget by 17%
The funding slash would hamper NOAA’s research funding and satellite programs while eliminating altogether funding for smaller programs on coastal management and estuary reserve efforts, among others, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Post Friday. The Commerce Department, which NOAA is a part of, is facing an 18 percent funding cut under the proposal by the Trump administration.
Among the satellite programs facing the largest cuts is the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, which houses climate and environmental information through the National Centers for Environmental Information. Researchers in that program have studied the continuing rate of global climate change. Another would be the Sea Grant program, which currently supports university research programs at 33 institutions nationwide.
The proposal highlights the Trump White House’s continued effort to undermine environmental research funding and regulations.
Since taking office President Donald Trump and his administration have moved swiftly to push back against the environmental agenda, repealing Clean Water Act protections for wetlands, proposing signifcant cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and considering roll backs for President Barack Obama’s signature climate change regulations.
The cuts will not hamper the NOAA’s important mission of predicting and tracking severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. But there are several satellites dedicated almost exclusively to measuring temperatures in the atmosphere as well as the amount of CO2 pumped into the stratosphere on an annual basis. This information is used to “predict” the rise in temperatures, although lately, those predictions have been wrong.
The cuts would also affect satellite programs that track air pollution, including the amount of particulates spewed into the atmosphere. The cuts would also affect the study of the world’s oceans at a critical moment in history, when over-fishing and rising ocean temperatures have drastically affected the major source of food for a majority of the people on the planet.
This is a case where applying a scalpel to the NOAA budget would be better than eviscerating it with an ax. There are programs that cannot be turned over to private industry, although a decent case can be made that most weather forecasting – except the severe weather center – can be done as well by private contractors.
WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES STEEP BUDGET CUT TO NOAA
The Trump administration is seeking to slash the budget of one of the government’s premier climate science agencies by 17 percent, delivering steep cuts to research funding and satellite programs, according to a four-page budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.
The proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would also eliminate funding for a variety of smaller programs, including external research, coastal management, estuary reserves and “coastal resilience,” which seeks to bolster the ability of coastal areas to withstand major storms and rising seas.
NOAA is part of the Commerce Department, which would be hit by an overall 18 percent budget reduction from its current funding level.
The Office of Management and Budget also asked the Commerce Department to provide information about how much it would cost to lay off employees, while saying those employees who do remain with the department should get a 1.9 percent pay increase in January 2018. It requested estimates for terminating leases and government “property disposal.”
The OMB outline for the Commerce Department for fiscal 2018 proposed sharp reductions in specific areas within NOAA such as spending on education, grants and research. NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would lose $126 million, or 26 percent, of the funds it has under the current budget. Its satellite data division would lose $513 million, or 22 percent, of its current funding under the proposal.
The National Marine Fisheries Service and National Weather Service would be fortunate by comparison, facing only 5 percent cuts.
The figures are part of the OMB’s “passback” document, a key part of the annual budget process in which the White House instructs agencies to draw up detailed budgets for submission to Congress. The numbers often change during the course of negotiations between the agency and the White House and between lawmakers and the administration later on. The 2018 fiscal year starts Oct. 1.
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…Flashback 1974: Global Cooling Caused Droughts, Floods, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Typhoons, Hurricanes & Polar Vortex!
In 1974, everything which is currently blamed on global warming, was blamed on the longest global cooling trend on record: 0.5C cooling since 1945.
15 Jul 1974, Page 3 – The Daily Republic
14 Jul 1974, Page 1 – Lincoln Evening Journal
These was problematic for NASA’s fake climate science, so they simply rewrote the past to eliminate the cooling.
