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2010-02-10 13:21:57 UTC
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/08/administration-proposes-new-
agency-study-climate-change/
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to
study and report on the changing climate, which has drawn concern among
many scientists in recent years.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new
Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service
and National Ocean Service.
"Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,"
Locke said Monday at a news conference.
Lubchenco added, "Climate change is real, it's happening now." She said
climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community
planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health
officials.
NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on
record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Many
atmospheric scientists believe that global warming is largely due to human
actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as
coal and natural gas.
Researchers and leaders from around the world met last month in Denmark to
discuss ways to reduce climate-warming emissions, and a follow-up session
is planned for later this year in Mexico. But a U.N. report that preceded
the conference in Copenhagen has been widely disputed after much of the
data in it was found to have been gathered unscientifically.
"More and more people are asking for more and more information about
climate and how it's going to affect them," Lubchenco explained. So
officials decided to combine climate operations into a single unit.
Portions of the Weather Service that have been studying climate, as well
as offices from some other NOAA agencies, will be transferred to the new
NOAA Climate Service.
The new agency will initially be led by Thomas Karl, director of the
current National Climatic Data Center. The Climate Service will be
headquartered in Washington and will have six regional directors across
the country.
Lubchenco also announced a new NOAA climate portal on the Internet to
collect a vast array of climatic data from NOAA and other sources. It will
be "one-stop shopping into a world of climate information," she said.
Creation of the Climate Service requires a series of steps, including
congressional committee approval. But if all goes well, it should be
finished by the end of the year, officials said.
In recent years, a widespread private weather forecasting industry has
grown up around the National Weather Service, and Lubchenco said she
anticipates growth of private climate-related business around the new
agency.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion. Charles B. Rangel is still under
"investigation" by a "closed door" House Ethics Committee.
At least they are taking another look at the so-called science.agency-study-climate-change/
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to
study and report on the changing climate, which has drawn concern among
many scientists in recent years.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new
Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service
and National Ocean Service.
"Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,"
Locke said Monday at a news conference.
Lubchenco added, "Climate change is real, it's happening now." She said
climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community
planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health
officials.
NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on
record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Many
atmospheric scientists believe that global warming is largely due to human
actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as
coal and natural gas.
Researchers and leaders from around the world met last month in Denmark to
discuss ways to reduce climate-warming emissions, and a follow-up session
is planned for later this year in Mexico. But a U.N. report that preceded
the conference in Copenhagen has been widely disputed after much of the
data in it was found to have been gathered unscientifically.
"More and more people are asking for more and more information about
climate and how it's going to affect them," Lubchenco explained. So
officials decided to combine climate operations into a single unit.
Portions of the Weather Service that have been studying climate, as well
as offices from some other NOAA agencies, will be transferred to the new
NOAA Climate Service.
The new agency will initially be led by Thomas Karl, director of the
current National Climatic Data Center. The Climate Service will be
headquartered in Washington and will have six regional directors across
the country.
Lubchenco also announced a new NOAA climate portal on the Internet to
collect a vast array of climatic data from NOAA and other sources. It will
be "one-stop shopping into a world of climate information," she said.
Creation of the Climate Service requires a series of steps, including
congressional committee approval. But if all goes well, it should be
finished by the end of the year, officials said.
In recent years, a widespread private weather forecasting industry has
grown up around the National Weather Service, and Lubchenco said she
anticipates growth of private climate-related business around the new
agency.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion. Charles B. Rangel is still under
"investigation" by a "closed door" House Ethics Committee.
a few Fox News talking heads and Tim Ball, the guy who lied about his
credentials and maybe Jim Inhofe, a Republican politician who received
over $1 million in campaign donations from the oil gas and coal
industry. Let the skeptical deniers have a say.
and open, the industry will not be able to get away
with hiding the decline again.