Article

2020-02-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Pres. Trump budget calls for slashing funds to climate science centers

[The Hill] President Trump’s budget proposes closing a network of climate science centers, prompting concerns the administration will hamstring climate change research while booting employees from the federal workforce.

Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget would slash funding for the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers, eliminating all $38 million for research to help wildlife and humans "adapt to a changing climate."

Rather than fund all eight regional centers along with the national one, the budget instead calls for just one center, at a cost of $20 million.

The restructuring plans follow similar steps employed by the Trump administration, where agencies with research ties are reshuffled or relocated, often prompting a reduction in staff.

"They have a track record of doing this," said Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental watchdog group. "In a normal administration, you wouldn't blow up eight other regional climate centers without going through Congress. I don't know exactly what they’re going to do, but, this being their wishlist, I won't be surprised if they try to put some of it into action without approval from Congress."

The administration previously moved two research wings of the Agriculture Department to Kansas City. One of those agencies, the Economic Research Service, lost nearly 80 percent of its nearly 200-plus person staff and had trouble producing required reports.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-21 02:29|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 I would also recommend slashing the leading "scientific" lights in that field - with a knout, for every gross distortion of known facts in their papers.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-21 02:53|| 2020-02-21 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Do they know how much paper it takes to make a stack of $ bills ? The ink and printing itself ?

Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-21 06:25|| 2020-02-21 06:25|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 I would also recommend slashing the leading "scientific" lights in that field - with a knout, for every gross distortion of known facts in their papers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-21 02:53

I'd recommend a cudgel myself, but I'm kinda traditional that way.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-02-21 06:37|| 2020-02-21 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

Eisenhower's farewell address

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-21 07:20|| 2020-02-21 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 ...while booting employees from the federal workforce.

Said as though it's a bad thing.

Posted by Raj 2020-02-21 09:48|| 2020-02-21 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 NASA announces new program to study flooding in the Mississippi River Delta outside of New Orleans, where 5,000 square miles of land has been lost to rising sea levels since the 1930s

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-21 09:59|| 2020-02-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 George and Amal Clooney's mansion is surrounded by flood water: £12m Grade-II listed home becomes submerged after Storm Dennis

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-21 10:00|| 2020-02-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 New tests under Antarctica's 'doomsday' Thwaites glacier reveals it has 'warm water welling up under it from THREE different directions' threatening to destroy the ice sheet and raise global sea levels by up to two feet

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-21 10:06|| 2020-02-21 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 These idiots aren't scientists, they are rent chasers. Grants and Foundation money is only given to those who march in step. Control is the agenda.

We have ice core samples now that you never hear about because they are quite revealing of the hoax, and past cataclysms for the matter.

Climate is a cycle of glacial vs post interglacial periods, the most recent being the Holocene.

Posted by mossomo 2020-02-21 11:56|| 2020-02-21 11:56|| Front Page Top

#10 I hear he needs the money to send all the climate scientists to combat climate change... on mars.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-02-21 12:20|| 2020-02-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Replace them all with one thermometer

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-02-21 17:50|| 2020-02-21 17:50|| Front Page Top

08:52 Matt
08:38 Gleng Whaick2262
08:35 Gleng Whaick2262
08:35 Gleng Whaick2262
08:33 Gleng Whaick2262
08:32 Gleng Whaick2262
08:31 Gleng Whaick2262
08:28 Gleng Whaick2262
08:24 Matt
08:20 SteveS
07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker