Posted on 06/21/2018 8:28:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A group of Republican senators is calling for an investigation into National Science Foundation (NSF) grants designed to educate meteorologists about climate change, saying the program has moved beyond science and into political action.
Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.), James Lankford (Okla.) and Jim Inhofe (Okla.) requested the probe in a letter Wednesday to the NSF inspector general, saying the grants are “not science – it is propagandizing," NBC News reported.
The letter states that the foundation has “issued several grants which seek to influence political and social debate rather than conduct scientific research.” The senators say that issuing the grants might violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from taking public political stances, as well as NSF’s mission, according to NBC News.
The federal program, called Climate Central, has been in place for six years and has taught more than 500 meteorologists about global warming, NBC News reported.
Climate Central CEO Ben Strauss pushed back against the GOP senators' claims.
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Guess who funds them? You and I do thats who! Hq is located in Princeton NJ ste 402 here is a list of folks who pay the bills. I put a star * next to Federal Agencies:
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WHO WE ARE
An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the public.
WHAT WE DO
Climate Central surveys and conducts scientific research on climate change and informs the public of key findings. Our scientists publish and our journalists report on climate science, energy, sea level rise. Read More
ABOUT OUR EXPERTISE
Members of the Climate Central staff and board are among the most respected leaders in climate science. Staff members are authorities in communicating climate and weather links, sea level rise, climate. Read More
Funding
Since its start in 2008, the following foundations, government agencies, and institutions have provided funding for Climate Central:
Caldera Foundation
Changing Horizons Fund of the Rockefeller Family Fund
ClimateWorks
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
David R. and Patricia D. Atkinson Foundation
The Dixon Family Fund
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
*Energy Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
Foundation for Environmental Research
George H. and Estelle M. Sands Foundation
Google.org
The Heising-Simons Foundation
The High Meadows Foundation
Island Foundation
The KR Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Litterman Family Foundation
*The MacArthur Foundation
*NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
*NASA Headquarters
*NASA Langley
*National Institutes of Health via Johns Hopkins University
*National Science Foundation via Columbia University
*National Science Foundation via George Mason University
*NOAA CICS (Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites) via North Carolina State University
Northrup Grumman
Peter T Paul Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation via Pepperwood Preserve
The Pisces Foundation
The Randall and Mary Hack Foundation
Risk Prediction Initiative
Rita Allen Foundation
Rockefeller Family Fund
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Robert & Ellen Gutenstein Foundation
Robertson Foundation
Saul D Levy Foundation
The Schmidt Family Foundation
The Summit Fundation
Tiger Baron Foundation
Town Creek Foundation
Turner Foundation, Inc.
**U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
**U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
**U.S. Department of Energy
University of Tennessee
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
The Winslow Foundation
The World Bank via The Nature Conservancy
Interested in supporting Climate Central? Climate Central is a certified 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization, so your gift tax-deductible. Make a gift online or contact Barbara Charbonnet at barbcharb@climatecentral.org or 201-321-8301.
There is nothing “scientific” about “consensus”.
Science utilizes the scientific method.
The scientific method requires the conduct of controlled, reproducible experiments.
Climate “science” does not utilize the conduct of controlled, reproducible experiments.
Since climate “science” does not utilize the conduct of controlled, reproducible experiments it does not utilize the scientific method and is therefore not science.
PS - “Inductive reasoning” is not science. It is “If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bull obama.”
It’s funny how too much CO2 causing global warming morphed into it causing climate change when accurate temperature records contradicted the temperature rise. So too much CO2 can cause warming and cooling at the same time.
Fixed it 😉
Maybe instead add a requirement that all grant recipients must present their findings to a special session of Congress to which leading scientists (actual ones) will be invited and their ability to receive ANY future federal funding will depend on a positive review of what they present.
The fox is in charge of the henhouse when it comes to federal research.
“consensus’ is the scientists and universities making the monies off the grants deciding that the process (scam) ought to be allowed to continue
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We’ll get a nice report and no action.
This is a win... down the road major win...
The use of tax dollar to promote political (and in the case of the left, religious) ideologies is a cancer of the body politic.
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