Posted on 06/23/2011 12:48:51 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
House Republicans charged Wednesday that the Obama administration is aiming to establish a “propaganda office” for Democratic initiatives on global warming through a proposal to consolidate operations in a new “climate service” office within the Commerce Department
Tensions boiled over at a congressional hearing as officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) defended the consolidation plan contained in President Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget and denied having any ulterior motive.
NOAA hopes to move more than 50 percent of its resources into the new climate service department, which it says will serve as the central clearinghouse for farmers, local governments, the military and academics seeking information on climate trends.
But a number of GOP lawmakers, who have staunchly opposed the administration’s climate and energy policies in the past, challenged NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco at a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
“[The climate service office] sounds a lot like a propaganda office to me. This seems to be an unneeded distraction that has nothing to do with science,” said Rep. Paul C. Broun, Georgia Republican. “This just seems like a politically motivated advocacy office that this administration is trying to stand up.”
Ms. Lubchenco called the proposal a “good government” reform and rejected Mr. Broun’s accusations and similar concerns from other Republicans on the committee.
“NOAA is proposing to more efficiently use the resources we receive to advance our science and improve our delivery of services to the public,” she said, adding that the reorganization, if approved by Congress, would be budget-neutral and would not require additional funding.
The hearing came on a day when former Vice President Al Gore, a leading Democratic voice on the environment, chided Mr. Obama for failing to deliver the change he promised on climate change...
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We need to clean the pond of these moronic scum. Actually, there is money to be made in the huge scam and I am sure our elitist government officials who are pushing this agenda are in neck deep. Repulsive.
Time to defund the Dept. of Commerce.
commerce department, lol....no motive here, no no
I remember back when NOAA had credibility...
I was thinking the same thing when I read this article. NOAA used to stand for respected science, not government funded propaganda.
Or get rid of it altogether.
Time to defund the Dept. of Commerce.
HOORAY Hugin! Defund socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Yes, ABSOLUTELY! HOORAY OddLane!
" YEP...it's a PROPAGANDA push...they want them ALL to listen to THIS ONE OFFICE>....
Lubchenco...man you just can't make this sh** up.
Lubchenco...man you just can't make this sh** up.
Please Republicans in Congress, find those cameras you love to get in frot of and tell the people that all the money going to this nonsense is money out of their pockets and out of their medicare and their social security etc... because it is.
Because THEN they will pay attention since it’s effecting their pocketbook directly in a tangible way.
bump
This is a great idea.
Obama should spend the next two years consolidating all of the dispersed climate propagandists employed by the federal government into one huge, centralized socialist propaganda mill.
Then in January, 2013, Pres. Palin can shut it down and fire them all and we’ll be done with this expensive, counterproductive nonsense.
Sounds like a propaganda office in the making to me.
“Sounds like a propaganda office in the making to me.”
An amazingly expensive propaganda office, at that. But then, re-education camps ain’t cheap.
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