Posted on 06/01/2018 7:30:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In a broad-ranging compendium requested by one of Congress’s most vocal skeptics about climate change, the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday released an agency-by-agency breakdown of spending related to the politically divisive topic. The report tracks spending since 1993 by agency, category and program.
Since 1993, agencies have spent more than $154 billion for “activities to understand and address climate change,” a push that has risen in recent years from about $2.4 billion across 10 agencies in fiscal 1993 to about $13.2 billion across 19 agencies in proposed budget authority for fiscal 2017. In the past seven years, for example, annual funding for technology to reduce carbon emissions increased by about $3.5 billion.
The lion’s share (89 percent) of spending on climate change issues is done by six agencies GAO isolated - the departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy and Agriculture, along with NASA and the National Science Foundation - in 18 “primary purpose” climate change programs.
GAO recommended that OMB “enhance” the information it provides to Congress, as it has recommended in the past, on fiscal exposures and risk due to climate uncertainty. And it recommended that OMB provide a special detailed inventory of climate change-related programs that appear fragmented, overlapping or duplicative.
OMB accepted the budget numbers but disagreed with the recommendations, saying the level of detail it provides Congress is sufficient.
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Perfect picture.
My first thought was all that money down the drain.
The climate has been changing since the beginning of time, without any help from humans.
We could not stop the next Ice Age with CO2 if we wanted to.
Grants to college idiots alone could save the world.
NASA funding was nearly $2 billion for climate change last year.
Dept of Energy $7 billion. That’s $19 million EVERY DAY.
Dept of State $632,000. Are you kidding me? It should be zero.
Padding budgets since 1993.
I was thinking bonfire so I can get some use out of it roasting marshmallows.
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