Senate Panel Backs Climate Research Plan

Roon

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Wed Mar-10-04 09:56 AM
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Senate Panel Backs Climate Research Plan

WASHINGTON - A $60 million program for researching sudden or unexpected changes in the climate would be created under legislation that won approval Tuesday by a Senate committee.

By voice vote and with little discussion, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee sent the bill to the full Senate for consideration.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_go_co/climate_change_senate_3&printer=1

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Soloflecks

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:12 AM
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1. Another waste of money.

This research is already being done! Someone is going to be very well paid for reinventing another wheel. They'd be better off funding research into how the damage of sudden climate change can be mitigated.

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Dogmudgeon

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:29 AM
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2. I gotta disagree

We've been starving funding for climatary research since the International Geophysical Year, back in 1958. We don't even have enough data buoys to report on the thermohaline circulation properly -- that will be a major indicator for what happens and when.

This kind of research would almost certainly involve risk mitigation studies. I think it's a good idea, even if a climate "flip-flop" is starting right now.

--bkl

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hatrack

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:50 AM
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3. Yeah, I saw your post on lack of real-time ocean data in E/E/S

Unbelievable. Even Woods Hole and NOAA don't have much in the way of information systems out in vast stretches of sea - depressing!

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