NASA plans big boost to climate research budget
By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post, April 1, 2010 [here]
NASA officials laid out plans Wednesday to boost spending on climate research substantially over the next five years, to make up for cutbacks during the Bush administration.
Edward Weiler, the agency’s associate administrator for science, said that NASA’s Earth Science budget will get a $2.4 billion, or 62 percent, increase through 2015. By that point, the program will have launched as many as 10 new missions, collecting information about ocean temperatures, ice coverage, ozone depletion and the central question of how much carbon dioxide is being released through human activities.
The budget increase reflects both a campaign promise by President Obama to focus far more on the threat of climate change and what NASA officials called a “philosophical shift” on the issue. … [more]
See also:
Senators Demand Explanation of NASA’s Flawed Climate Data [here]
NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits [here]
Note: NASA has been drinking the global warming corn squeezings for a long time. That Obama — he’s never seen a deficit he couldn’t top. Never let an economic crisis go to waste when you can make it worse!!!