New Federal Climate Change Agency Forming
by PubliusFrom ABC News:
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.
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*sigh*
"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."
Wrong!!!!! Check the statistics. The temperatures around the world have been stagnant for a decade. UNEXPLAINED by the global weather forcasting "models".
In reality, Locke & Lubchenco are concerned about their jobs and obtaining federal funding for their organizations.
"Climate change", formerly known as "Global warming" is simply being used as a pretext for a money-grab.
Great, cuz those last Chicken Little glowbull warming alarms were so cost effective and revealed tons of great info.
Oh Boy a new government agency…we have such a lack of them …Lets see but crappy data in get crappy data out…Maybe they will find that carbon credits to make OWL Gore rich will help hey whats a little kick back ..NO ONE LISTENS TO JUNK SCIENCE ANYMORE
NOAA has been in the tank on this scam from the beginning. and to think that as a kid, it was my dream to become an oceanographer and or work for noaa. this is simply laying the groundwork for another expansion of federal government and bring the climate change carpetbaggers home from the UN.
Maybe we should get the Goracle who is currently under his blankets sucking his thumb to chair this new government waste of money!!!
The whole climateGate fiasco is about the bogus data created to support the agenda for "climate change", when in fact there has been a global cooling trend. It's why the "hocky stick" was created using an algorithm to change the data.
Why post an article like this when it is based on bogus data? Have you not heard of ClimateGate??
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HELLO???? I thought the White House had some of the best communication tech on the planet. How in the world can they not have gotten the message? AGW is a HOAX, WE the PEOPLE know this, why don't you?
Oblama just cannot change his paradigm even when it is crumbling around him. Let him buy a vowel so he can solve this puzzle. Our economy and our future are at stake.
260 days to go, maybe if the snow storm can keep them out of congress a few more days we may save some money.
Oh goody gum drops! Another government rathole to pour money down. This administration is making it so easy to unseat them come November.
Put out an APB,,,,,,Where in the world is AL?
Been very quiet lately!
How much are his talking fee these days?
Is anyone still booking this loser?
DAMN……..
THE OBAMA IS STILL NOT LISTENING.
???
Th is IN YOUR FACE taxation for somethiing9CO2) that is NOT a greenhouse gas or pollutant. It follows weeks of daily revelations that the UN Panel on Climate Change is a farce. So what does OBAMA do? They create ANOTHER farce at TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE to feed the same bogus drivel to congress and to the public. AGW is a LIE. ALGORE is a LIAR. OBAMA is a LIAR!. Get it yet? You have to read news from Europe to get the facts on the AGW scam because our MSM will NOT cover these hoaxes..Thank God for Brietbart and FOX and Drudge.
we need a boogieman department too.
Global warming prediction: the entire northern hemisphere will see a dramatic temperature rise between now and July!
=Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” =
Really? I never noticed those crazy climate changing things called seasons. It's really real?
This idiot states the obvious like it is a threat. The words between the lines say "It all humankind's fault…especially those humans that are conservative, who's money and freedom we want."
Ok, so let me get this straight. There has been atleast one new story a week for the past few months about the fact that global warming/ climate change has been a farce from the beginning and they have been faking the data for 20 years. So Obama is now going to form a new agency and another huge expensive bureuacracy to pour $ into. If he wasn't such a danger to our country and our freedoms it would be funny!
Climate change is natural and if we think we can mess with mother nature to change the patterns,warming's/coolings then we are on a big ego trip!.. do they honestly think they are that powerful as to change something that has been going on from the beginning of time.
I can't believe they are still going forth with this scam.." the biggest tax scam we ever seen in our lifetime" the leaders of the world have screwed everything up as far as their economies go and now they want to scam the world to pay for it.
If this crap goes through we will be third world statues within months,do people like the way the Haitians live,well get used to it that's what this bill will create.
The only real threat we have here is that there are people who really, really believe in this now totally disproven fairy tale. Even the U.N.'s "alledged experts' can't tell the same lie anymore. And all I can say is look at all the "global warming, climate change or whatever you want to call it" piled up around the capital building. And there's more on the way. Real people just call it snow, which is FROZEN (a.k.a. cold) precipitation. I think that maybe the coming ice age predicted in Time magazine in the '70's finally arrived. Because in the A.M. when I go to work lately, it's been cold enough to freeze the brass off of a bald monkey.
Al Gore; SHUT UP JERK!
What a bunch of crap sputtered to give more jobs to BO's buddies from CA and Chicago. We can no more control the weather than we can control CONTINENTAL DRIFT OR POLAR DRIFT.
Stop it!
Climate Change: sunny today in Michigan, 6-12 inches of snow tomorrow!
If you can answer two questions I'm with ya
1.Why did the last Ice Age stop?
2.If everyone is so worried about cow emissions …just think how much methane was released by millions of dinos most were plant eaters and if that is the answer to the first question why did'nt we slip back into a Ice Age.Big gap between dinos and man.
Is there no limit to how much money they can waste. This a complete fraud. VOTE THEM OUT!
Current news on the "settled" science of AGW::
1) Climategate– About paranoid scientists at East Anglia fudging data, refusing FOIA requests and creating problematic computer code.The Guardian newspaper's (an AGW advocate) investigation of the thousands of emails found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced that it has obtained internal documents from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies related to a controversy that erupted in 2007 when Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre exposed an error in NASA’s handling of raw temperature data from 2000-2006 that exaggerated the reported rise in temperature readings in the United States.
2) “Robust” and “peer reviewed” scientific research in the IPCC’s 2007 report has recently been revealed to have relied, in some cases, upon such things as an article in a mountain-climbing magazine, a student dissertation using anecdotal evidence from mountain guides, and the unvetted claims of environmental groups.
3) Michael Mann, creator of the famous and fake hockey stick graph used by Al Gore, is under investigation at Penn State for his role in Climategate.
4) Glaciergate– The IPCC is forced to withdraw the paper that claims that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 because it was based on ONE scientist's opinion and therefore scientifically bogus.
5) Reefgate– It's been revealed that Greenpeace – an organization known more for headline-grabbing publicity stunts than sober-minded analysis is sited as the the SOLE source for the claim of coral reef degradation in the 2007 IPCC report.
6) Rainforestgate– Findings in the IPCC report claim that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest in South America was endangered by global warming. This was discredited upon finding it was based on numbers from a study by the World Wildlife Federation that had nothing to do with the issue of global warming — and that was written by a freelance journalist and green activist.
7) The Weather Channel founder John Coleman has made a TV documentary claiming the NCDC finding that 2009 tied with 2006 for the fifth warmest year on record is fatally flawed. Coleman's show trumpets a new report that alleges that federal climate agencies have been manipulating climate data for years in order to show more significant warming than has actually been occurring.
9) BBC reports the most alarming forecasts of natural systems amplifying the human-induced greenhouse effect may be too high, according to a new report from a study in Nature. It confirms that as the planet warms, oceans and forests will absorb proportionally less CO2.
10) The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn’t there.
11) Calls by Greenpeace U.K for embattled IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri to resign saying his judgment is flawed and other groups saying he's a crony capitalist financially benefiting from bogus AGW research.
12) The U.K. government’s chief scientific advisor, John Beddington, has acknowledged some climate scientists exaggerated the impact of global warming and called for more honesty in explaining to the public the inherent uncertainties of predictions based on computer climate models, adding: “I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper skepticism.”
It's all a giant fraud. Take your pick.
"Most atmospheric scientists believe that warming is largely due to human actions,…"
Prove it. The tone of the ABC article tells you alll you need to know.
Why did the last Ice Age stop?……Come on lefties explain it
There is a far greater risk of San Francisco and Sacramento being swallowed in an earthquake than there is from Global Warming. I keep hoping for the former and know the latter isn't gonna happen
This must mean the banks are really screwed right now. They need Cap&Trade to invent new products to sell. I smell desperation.
"Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.”
No sh!t…It's called the 4 seasons Einstein. The next cycle of climate change will be the coming spring. There's a good chance that the weather may change…Maybe…Just saying, it's possible… Have these clowns even seen a Poor Richards almanac before…? This climate changey stuff has been happening for a very, very, very long time. Can't imagine it's going to subside anytime soon…!?
Good luck with that ccwasabi.
I'm not sure which came first, the socialist economic redistributionist bent on the "Climate Change" issue, or the issue itself. Based on the way it is treated, I tend to think that it was grabbed as a theory early on.
In the '70s, it was tried with Global Cooling (they blamed CO2 back then for the cooling!) So, it seems like the scam goes deep enough through the whole branch of "science". It isn't a redeemable study – it is an ideological religion. If they get enough people to say it loud enough, then it's hard to believe it isn't true… but there are too many "pushers" out there for me to trust it. Copenhagen was all "death to capitalism!", not anything really about the planet.
I have been trying for 40 years but they still get in.
Must be the parasites that are electing them.
we have had it up to HERE with federal climate studies– that is how we ended up with the garbage from Penn State, IPCC, and CRU in the first place– JUST SAY NO! And, DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!
This is just another dum-azz idea from dum-azz people to part the little people from their money. I knew crap like this would happen when you put somebody thats black, in charge of something important.
If it wasn't for his tele-prompter, tell me what qualifications he actually has, for anything he is doing right now or has planned?
BTW, peeee-losi is lower than whale crap, an it lays on the bottom of the ocean.
Qn 1:
Don't know to be honest, but we wouldn't know that it did stop unless we have done investigation into it. Not scientists making up theories of "we're all doomed" then trying to hack the data to fit their model.
Qn 2:
I'm not worried personally about the effect of cow consumption on climate change – i'm more worried by more pressing matters like how to feed our own population…
hahaha I was just thinking that!
So many of these environMENTAL groups try to point out to us that humans are destroying the world, but I figured out how we can fix it all. Photosynthesis removes CO2 and replenishes O2. Since >80% of all O2 production comes from photosynthesis of plankton, and whales eat plankton; the answer is simple. SAVE THE WORLD, KILL THE WHALES!
No, Climate Change is real, I swear! Just this morning, when I woke up, it was snowing! And now in the evening, it's snowing harder! See? Also, I noticed that 12 hours ago it was a lot darker than it is now! Coincidence? I think not!
The criminals in DC might as well set vup an agency to study unicorns. The world has become aware of the scam known as anthropogenic global warming. The IPCC based its reports on a paper written by some leftwing stoner who's not even a scientist, unless of course you count his experimentation with hallucinogenics. Any US politician that pushes for legislation based on a scam with less credibility than the Nigerian Bank deposit scam, should face prison time. It would be akin to still promoting Madoff's business model despite the fact it was a ponzi scheme and he's in prison.
There's nothin' worse than a college kid with a spread sheet and an Al GORE RYTHEM
Was it King Canute who ordered the seas to recede? Or, was it King Obama?
Darn, and I thought the rational side was winning. Silly me.
Don't forget that the number of stations worldwide upon which data collection depends has been decreasing. In a totally unrelated story – the stations dropped from the data collection have been ones that did not show increasing temperatures. The collection of data has been increasingly urbanized (close to asphalt and heat sources) and even that is not causing a dramatic increase in average temperature.
I WILL BE THE FIRST TO SUPPORT A NEW GOV'T AGENCY TO INVESTIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE, IF THE PRESIDENT STIPULATES THAT ALL EMPLOYEES ARE SUBJECT TO MANDATORY EUTHANASIA SIX MONTHS AFTER HIRE.
Tighten your purse strings you no good patriots because we need more money to EXPAND the governement !!
Unfreakingbelievable. They are all INSANE and the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. A bunch of gerbils running around the cages of corruption squealing "feed me, feed me"….mo money, mo money. Meanwhile the head idiot is on TV all the time spewing transparency! transparency! Get the cameras!
I swear, I think Ahmadingaling has more common sense right now and we all know what a nutcase he is.
Three more years, three more years of this progressive Nitwit…
There is a job waiting for you in the Oblama administration!
Bertha Lewis from ACORN has another chance. I am sure the Census beaureau can gather data. Obama can have his crackpot economists make up data.
Oh goody, another government agency. Of course they will be totally objective. I mean it would never cross their minds that, "If we say climate change is not a threat, we lose our reason for having jobs." No, that conflict of interests built into this new agency won't result in a myriad of "Sky is Falling!" emergency announcements. Not that the deck won't be stacked with the likes of lying scum like Hansen and Schmidt from the get go. God help us survive these Marxists who want to tell us how to wipe our backsides.
Yesterday it rained. Today the sun is shinning. How I love Climate Change!
Just when we thought it was safe to go back into the water after Obama swore he would put a halt to spending and cut the budget. Is anyone really surprised that he would propose to spend more money on yet another gov't agency to further push his progressive agenda? I guess I'm as stupid as the Pres thinks I am.
Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry,
So the truth slips out. Which company is heavily invested in wind power? GE. The leftwing propaganda channel that promotes all this green bullshyt is owned by whom? GE. So we have the federal fascists in DC positioning one of their main contributors to be a major beneficiary in this fleecing of the taxpayer.
It really is astonishing that there aren't leftwing corpses stacked to the sky. These liberal fascists are akin to a burglar breaking into your home and stealing your belongings. Only difference is they do it with the blessing of the corrupt liberal federal govt.
this is a riot… NOAA, along with NASSA have been accused/are being investigated for having MOVED their temp sensors out of all typically cold areas and having placed them instead in dowmtown urban areas (probably on the sidewalks in JULY in FL or Needles, CA) and now they are going to be in charge of yet another "blue ribbon" panel when they are the ones who have already falsified information… kind of like letting the fox guard the hen house. But I'm sure obamarama knew that when he selected them.
I was so miffed watching that pompous ad – and now this? Another agency, another government funded circus? Are these people for real?????
@ J Gault: That is an excellent summation.
There is too much money and too much power involved in CC/GW that the "power brokers" would simply let this drop. This to me is the first time in the twentieth century that one of the patent "scare scenarios" has been exposed publicly, and it has been done via the Web. Much of what we are now witnessing is, those brokers trying to gain the high ground again. We can now see though all of the subtrefuge, however, and how hollow their statements are.
It's still going to be a long battle.
Nope, you're not stupid – he's just got that magic math thing going all day every day.
The Green Police!
Enjoy…
http://obamaclock.org/
more proof that obama doesn't listen to the American people
what?? WTF?? ……..take a look at the small minnow causing all the problems in the central valley of California, and then also look at the 35% + unemployed workers in the valley………….and also the landowners that can not grow crops due to the insane shut off of water to their valley. Why????? nothing to do with the supossed global warming??????…..they are simply being force fed all that BS by the Sierra Club, Geen Peace, World Wild Life funds, etc etc etc …..theior goal is to stop Americans from working, to destory our way of life, and most importantly, to stop us from growing our crops to feed the people of our great country. Why???? because they want to destroy this country. We must fight back. Stop the elitists from destroying America NOW!!!!
Quote from pen state Mr Mann email Climate gate
"The FACT is we CAN'T account for the LACK OF WARMING at the moment and it's a travesty that we CAN'T."
That is a reasonable position.
Increasing the bureaucracy does nothing but create another cover for corrupt, New World Order socialists to peddle discredited nonsense. Show me honest science and I may change my mind.
The Lightbringer can't do that.
Even the graphic used above is backwards…….can we trust the data..
The only real threat in DC is the politicians, and I am all for curbing that phenomenon
Gary Locke is scum bag that works for the Chinese, the guy cannot sell out America fast enough
You cannot make this crap up
Ubama gang intends to dictate to nature as what the weather will be.
I do not think even hitler tried that.
This goes into effect after the heat wave and they dig the blackhouse in D.C out of 8 feet of snow
True, what more can you say?!?! I clicked to read the whole article, and it has been taken down or moved. I believe it melted under the heat the writer is taking from realists like us who know he/she is an insane liberal. Hey, when your job depends on writing goofy articles about goofy government plans based on goofy 'science', I guess you gotta do whacha gotta do. I'm still waiting on the proof that man caused global warming 25,000 years ago.
HEY LIBS, here's a clue: The Sun Cycles and Cosmic Rays from space have fried your collective brains.
Ya, the problem with food production isn't environmental, it's governmental, ask any of the other farmers on here.
The climate is going to change through the Earth's wobble cycle, orbit cycle of the planet, plate tectonics, volcanic activity, gravitational tides, solar activity and a million other factors. We are all just here for the ride & no matter what we do, we cannot change that.
Well now. Isn't that special.
“Whether we like it or not,
climate'Hope and Change' represents a real threat,” Locke said Monday at a news conference.Now that would have been more accurate.
I know this is a hot topic but I have an observation. If the science is, as Al Gore says, settled, why do we need this new agency? Also, why do we need 6 regional offices of this agency? A point that I have to make; The medieval warming period was much warmer than now. Furthermore, how can this decade be the warmest on record, when the record clearly shows it has been cooling for more than a decade. The only evidence I have heard to refute this fact is the IPCC making the claim it was the warmest decade, like you can trust them at this point.
This is becoming ZOMBE politics — you just cant kill a ZOMBE —
it just keeps on coming back for more
ZOMBE’s
1 — Health Care – Big D stile
2 — Global Warming – Al Gore stile
3 — Cap & trade — UN stile
The list goes on !!!!
yep, i thought we're well overdue for a magnetic pole reversal…
In answer to your two questions, it's "JOB CREATION". I.e., GOVERNMENT JOBS. 10,000 more GOVENMENT jobs created.
What BS, just what we need is another eco-Fascist organization producing fraudulent reports based on manipulated data.
My understanding is that you have to cut off the head or destroy the brain.
Thanks for the facts.
I have a question President Obama, where are we going to get the money for this ? Even if I thought it was a real environmental threat, and not a scheme by scientists to get grants and Gore and company to make money, I don't think we have the money to fund any more government agencies. What are you planning to cut from government in order to fund this? If a family on a budget decided to have a new car payment, they would have to cut something else from their budget, so what is the government planning to cut?
models with a "fudge" factor built in…and we ain't talking the confection….
President Obama's #1 Priority He States as he Lies: JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! ECONOMY! ECONOMY ECONOMY!
President Obama's #1 True Priority: Fundamentally Changing America with his Progressive Big Government Agenda.
Wow. I have to give you a point and a reply just for your taking the time to succinctly summarize the lunacy. Good work JGault. Thanks.
The new windmill turbines in Minnesota are frozen and inoperable. More $$$ down the hole by a-holes. The manufacturer didn't factor in on the exteme cold weather conditions in the northland. Get fat algore on the phone.
What the heck to they need that for?
Climate change previously known as global warming previously known as climate cooling
that's " extreme " sorry
Voodoo economics and Zombe politics. Am I living in Haiti?
You see, the hoax is part of the Progressive/Liberal/Socialist/Populist (what ever flipp'n name they're going by this week) plan, you need a "crisis", real or not, to justify your actions & divert the public's attention.
They used to call the Cold War "welfare" for engineers.
Well, kids, Climate Change is now officially "welfare" for scientists.
You should all be ashamed.
ManBearPig must be stopped. No price is too high.
Lol….it is funny how the naming has changed over the years. It used to be called the "greenhouse effect" then "global warming" then "climate change." Remember CFCs? How bout "Save the Rainforest!" Or acid rain. I'm getting nostalgic for the 90s.
And by golly he will keep forming new agencies until HE gets the results HE wants!
You also forgot, redundancy in services by having not only this new agency but also NOAA, NASA, Navy, Air Force, NSA & several other agencies that are already researching this, as well as, diverting more resources that are needed for more immediate matters into this mess.
You said it best Captain.."sigh"…
I guess there is no recession if you are a climatologist…
Wonderful news!
This reminds me of the govenrmnet houseing projects in Chicago from years ago. They planned and built them but forgot one thing; they forgot to put public toilets on the ground floor. Pity those kids on the public playgrounds in front of the housing when they had to wee wee.
Wonder where Al the Gore is hiding..Wouldn't it be
"poetic justice" if they found him buried under 2 feet
of snow?…….lol
-Dutch authorities point out factual inaccuracies about the Netherlands. IPCC experts calculated that 55 percent of the Netherlands was below sea level by adding the area below sea level — 26 percent — to the area threatened by river flooding — 29 percent.
-The U.N.'s controversial climate report is coming under fire — again — this time by one of its own scientists, who admits he can't find any evidence to support a warning about a climate-caused North African food shortage.
The global warming scam it too good for the government to let it go. It's a potential source of huge new powers and revenues.
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