The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be about to remove ‘climate change’ from its list of core priorities.
According to the New York Times:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the Department of Commerce, operates a constellation of earth-observing satellites.
Because of its work on climate science data collection and analysis, it has become one of the most important American agencies for making sense of the warming planet.
But that focus may shift, according to a slide presentation at a Department of Commerce meeting by Tim Gallaudet, the acting head of the agency.
In the presentation, which included descriptions of the past and present missions for the agency, the past mission listed three items, starting with “to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts.”
In contrast, for the present mission, the word “climate” was gone, and the first line was replaced with “to observe, understand and predict atmospheric and ocean conditions.”
The presentation also included a new emphasis: “To protect lives and property, empower the economy, and support homeland and national security.”
If this is indeed NOAA’s new emphasis, it would certainly accord with the skeptical views of President Trump on the “man-made global warming” issue.
For decades, like NASA, NOAA has been a leading player in promoting climate alarmism.
As recently as the beginning of this year it was caught red-handed trying to adjust the Big Freeze of the winter of 2017/2018 in the U.S. out of existence.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg. One of NOAA’s jobs is to maintain the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), one of the world’s major earth surface temperature datasets.
It has frequently been caught adjusting this data in order to make early 20th century temperatures colder and recent temperatures hotter so as to give a more dramatic impression of “global warming.”
If NOAA goes back to its day job – as the name suggests – monitoring atmospheric and oceanic conditions, then it will be a healthy sign that the U.S. economy, the taxpayer, honest science, and President Trump are #winning.
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NOAA will still be observing and predicting changes in the atmosphere. I don’t see a change in their activities based on that statement. As much as I doubt antrhopogenic climate change is occuring, the climate will ALWAYS change and observing and reporting that change is an important activity for our nation’s weather agency.
NOAA needs to get back to some Common Sense it did not have under Clinton or Obama Dump this Global Warming/Climate Change poppycock into the dumpster of Liberal Stupidity
Changing the mission statement does not change the people. NOAA is loaded with climate activists. You can bet that they will continue to have the agency lie to support their cause.
What is really needed is prosecution of those who are lying.
“For decades, like NASA, NOAA has been a leading player in promoting climate alarmism.” This is a positive change without a doubt but don’t forget change is difficult, often nonlinear and inconvenient.
Since NOAA is loaded with climate activists; they should leave and start another “Climate Matters” group no one will pay any attention!
You often see those Eco-Wackos carrying dumb signs with mindless slogans on them or sunflowers or alarm clock shaped signs reading TIME IS RUNNING OUT the usial liberal crack-pots moving the hands of their silly Doomsday Clock and cracked urns like Bill Nye and James Hansen as well as Al Bore and Leonardo DiCaprio and Laurie David and those Green Nuts from Greenpeace running around dressed as Polar Bears while their ships Arctic Sunrise and Rainbow Warrior II just look at Patrick Moore one of Greenpeace origional founders he quit because Greenpeace went too radical and want to ban Chlorine
My question is, will we get the original temperature readings reinstated in the record?
Just like in the EPA, the opposition to this would be fierce. There would of course be the claims that the Trump administration was corrupting the data. One thing you can count on liberals to do is accuse others of the very thing that they are doing. I doubt the true data will be restored. If it were, there is a right way to do it. Leave the fraudulent data available so it is easy to see what has been done. Then also have the true data available so they could be compared.