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Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Weather Service In Eye of Budget Cut Storm

Author:     STEPHANIE LANDSMAN
Source:     CNBC
Publication Date:     Friday, 17 Feb 2012 | 12:52 PM ET
 Link: Weather Service In Eye of Budget Cut Storm
Stephan:   One of the ways to hide climate change is simply to cut the budget of the weather service so that it doesn't have the satellites and other technical infrastructure installations that it needs to catch the data to report. Surprise! That is exactly what conservatives in the Congress are doing, and Obama is going along with it.

A frigid wind is blowing from Pennsylvania Avenue to National Weather Service offices all over the country.

President Barack Obama is calling to slash $39 million dollars or four percent from National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Under his budget plan, it would get $872.2 million in fiscal year 2013 – down from $911 million.

This is the second year in a row the National Weather Service is in the eye of the federal budget cut storm.

The National Weather Service narrowly escaped getting hit last year after President Barack Obama fought House Republicans to keep the funding. In fact, it got a net increase of three million dollars.

But this time, the downburst is coming from the White House. It’s expected to put 96 jobs on the chopping block.

NOAA Spokesperson Scott Smullen said President Obama’s proposal is an administration-wide effort to find IT efficiencies and savings across all federal agencies.

To comply, NOAA wants to ‘consolidate

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