New federal climate change agency forming

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The Obama administration is proposing 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, planned to announce Monday that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.

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.

Researchers and leaders from around the world met last month in Denmark to discuss ways to reduce climate-warming emissions, and a follow-up session is planned for later this year in Mexico.

“More and more people are asking for more and more information about climate and how it's going to affect them,” Lubchenco explained. So officials decided to combine climate operations into a single unit.

Portions of the Weather Service that have been studying climate, as well as offices from some other NOAA agencies, will be transferred to the new NOAA Climate Service.

The new agency will initially be led by Thomas Karl, director of the current National Climatic Data Center. The Climate Service will be headquartered in Washington and will have six regional directors across the country.

-- Associated Press

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2010...cy-forming.html

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Imagine that!

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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...

Human population has increased throughout the years. More people making out each day all around the world may contribute to global "warming." It is indeed due to human actions.

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Looks like this superbowl ad is not to weird after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq58zS4_jvM...player_embedded

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Since the climate is in constant 'change' the joke's on the taxpayer. HaHa, more bureaucracy.

Did you hear about the new agency to study and report the wetness of water?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Since the climate is in constant 'change' the joke's on the taxpayer. HaHa, more bureaucracy.

Did you hear about the new agency to study and report the wetness of water?

I used to tell my mom, "Why make my bed if I'm just going to sleep in it later?", but she didn't buy it.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I used to tell my mom, "Why make my bed if I'm just going to sleep in it later?", but she didn't buy it.

To keep the cat from leaving a surprise on your pillow! Sheesh! Didn't you learn anything?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

To keep the cat from leaving a surprise on your pillow! Sheesh! Didn't you learn anything?

My cat had all its surprises taken away via surgery.

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I used to tell my mom, "Why make my bed if I'm just going to sleep in it later?", but she didn't buy it.

And she was wrong.

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I used to tell my mom, "Why make my bed if I'm just going to sleep in it later?", but she didn't buy it.

I heard that making your bed sets your mood for the day. I didn't know when I was younger and I was a slob. Such is life.

We all want less pollution but the problem is that the global warming (that didn't pan out) climate change crowd wants to turn CO2 into a pollutant. Did you pay any attention to all the fraud at the IPCC to make it so?

Oh and I know I'm greener than you.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Next up is the Department of Global Warming. Hard to believe these crooks are able to rip us off this easily.

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Global warming gives me frostbite.

UPDATE: The following Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearings have been postponed due to inclement weather this week:

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, will hold a hearing entitled, "Collaborative Solutions to Wildlife and Habitat Management."

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing entitled, "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States."

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fus...b8-8fa00c661d62

Edited February 9, 2010 by John Galt

[one...two...tree 2,762]

We all want less pollution but the problem is that the global warming (that didn't pan out) climate change crowd wants to turn CO2 into a pollutant. Did you pay any attention to all the fraud at the IPCC to make it so?

That's wonderful news...if only it were factual.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That's wonderful news...if only it were factual.

Just click your heels together three times, and say, "Oh, it's true, it's true!"