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Climate scientists warn cuts to US programme to hurt research
Jun 5, 2007, 17:59 GMT
Washington - Scientists' ability to monitor climate change will be hurt by proposed funding cuts to a government satellite programme, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, quoting a confidential government report.
Washington would cut the number of monitoring satellites to four from an earlier six, under President George W Bush's proposed budget. Those four satellites would focus primarily on wether prediction and not climate research, the newspaper reported.
The proposed programme cuts are due to cost concerns. It was set to cost 10 billion dollars, about a quarter more than planned.
A report by government scientists for the White House Office of Science and Technology said the cuts could put 'the overall climate programme in serious jeopardy.'
The report was posted online by watchdog group Climate Science Watch on Monday.
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To bad, the satellites were showing the more accurate drop in temperatures(cooling for Pete) as opposed to the old gauges.
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tonny from belgiumJun 5th, 2007 - 18:50:09
You can thank Bush and the petroleum lobby for this ,10 billion dollars is about a few days of war in Iraq ?Of course this is not the real reason.Exxon does not want you to find out the reality of the future .
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