Posted on 02/08/2010 12:59:27 PM PST by bestintxas
The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
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. Most atmospheric scientists believe that 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.
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A federal agency appointed by Obama will find that there is man made global warming and that we need global socialism to combat it.
A federal agency appointed by a Republican would find the opposite.
A bureaucracy can not do science and neither can scientists supported by political funding. We have NWS, NOAA, NASA and many more and still we need another government agency? I’m sure that to ensure that there will be a fair result, a former vice-president will head it.
Healthcare, cap and tax, and don’t ask don’t tell are all pending and Obama wants a new agency on global warming? Next will be amnesty. I guess Obama figures that if the American people eat bullfrogs the first year he’s in office, that we’ll develop a taste for them.
Dear Lord.....
....Please make it stop.
I can't handle any more nonesense, it makes my head hurt...
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