House GOP Wants to Eviscerate NASA Earth Sciences in New Budget

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...e_wants_to_slash_and_burn_earth_sciences.html

Sad. They can't deal with the fact that NASA is producing unarguable facts on climate change, so they're completely slashing the budget NASA uses to study climate change.

It's funny. We were always told by deniers that the only reason scientists are agreeing with AGW theories is because their funding depended on it. So much for that theory. Turns out it's just the opposite. Their funding is being slashed because their continued support for AGW theories is inconvenient for government. And yet no one has turned coat. Scientists at NASA still support AGW theories. Go figure. Turns out they do care more about the science than their funding.

The wolves have taken over the henhouse in the House science committee.

Sad day.

 

Same reason they refuse to fund the CDC to study gun violence. Their rationale is if they can't lie loud enough to cover it up, then stick it in the closet and deny it ever happened. Then they can continue to lie. And when it all blows up, blame NASA for not warning us.

 

Ironically the U.S. military spends more money on their space program than NASA.

 

CDC has done multiple gun studies what are you babbling about?

 

I read the article and it made me laugh, especially spouting the 97% nonsense and your silly comment about 'unarguable facts'. Need a good laugh once in awhile.

 

The actual amount of the cut depends on whether some caps enacted in 2011 are removed or not. If they are, then Earth sciences gets $1.45 billion. If not, it gets $1.2 billion. The current FY 2015 budget is $1.773 billion.

Compare that with the White House request for FY ’16 of $1.947 billion for Earth sciences. The bill will be marked up (amended and rewritten) by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee today.


Helps when you guys read past the headline...

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-year-record-38-sure-right.html#ixzz3Ypy1GXSM

 

A number to this day you've been unable to prove wrong. Especially since there are now multiple polls and surveys of surveys saying such. It's not going to be an easy one to get away from, Hoosier. Fact is damn near 100% of scientists now support AGW.

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What NASA actually said was they're 74% sure the hottest decade is within the last 5 years and 94% it's within the last 10.

Also they're more sure 2014 is the hottest year than any other year.

I don't need to read how Daily Mail skewered the facts.

 

I am the one that told you 100% of climate scientists believe man contributes to warming. LOL

 

Well it is Slate where opinion is fact and anything can be spun how fun!

 

I don't understand. Do you think you said something that contradicts anything that was said? They are cutting Earth Science budget by nearly 30% at a time where climate research is most important and most scientists agree climate change is the biggest environmental threat of our time.

 

Article makes no sense to begin with if the cap was 1.45 billion how is it currently 1.773 billion? And do you understand not doing a request is not a cut?

 

It's not inconvenient for government, but inconvenient for the Koch Bros, and other wealthy oligarchs and their republican puppets in Washington.

 

Yes because the overlord Koch Brothers control Congress /rolls eyes..

I see the 2 min hate has a new face...

 

36 billion so far on climate science and all we have is a hockey stick and an hiatus.

 

You should probably tell NASA they did not need to apologize then.

lol

 

They didn't

 

Why keep pumping money into a dead horse?

 

How exactly do you fit a decade into the last 5 years???? Their funding needs to be eliminated if that's what they're coming up with.

 

Nice kook blog chart Bill!

 

Really?

Two years ago this week, President Obama ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get back to studying “the causes of gun violence.”

The CDC had not touched firearm research since 1996 — when the NRA accused the agency of promoting gun control and Congress threatened to strip the agency’s funding. The CDC’s self-imposed ban dried up a powerful funding source and had a chilling effect felt far beyond the agency: Almost no one wanted to pay for gun violence studies, researchers say. Young academics were warned that joining the field was a good way to kill their careers. And the odd gun study that got published went through linguistic gymnastics to hide any connection to firearms...

..today the CDC still avoids gun-violence research, demonstrating what many see as the depth of its fear about returning to one of the country’s most divisive debates. The agency recently was asked by The Washington Post why it was still sitting on the sidelines of firearms studies. It declined to make an official available for an interview but responded with a statement noting it had commissioned an agenda of possible research goals but still lacked the dedicated funding to pursue it.

Got it?

 

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/Pri...Firearm-Related-Violence/Press-ReleaseMR.aspx

Hell i will even link Daily KOS

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/17/1238623/-Defensive-Gun-Use-The-CDC-Report-on-Gun-Violence#

Got it?

 

Yes. I 'got it'. If you go back and read the links, especially the one from DailyKos, you'll find that actually very little was done and nothing like the kind of in-depth studies that the CDC is capable of. But that takes money, money which is not available thanks to all of the gun-hugging Repubs in Congress.

 

I've been watching this one for a while.