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The Great ‘Climate Change’ Taxpayer Rip-Off of 2011

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divdivdiva name3545256944763889584ah3a hrefhttpfactsnotfantasy.blogspot.com201101greatclimatechange2011taxpayerrip.htmlThe Great Climate Change Taxpayer RipOff of 2011ah3divdiva hrefhttp1.bp.blogspot.comMpd1ozuoa64TTJDiyCuiRIAAAAAAAAC84MZ9aTBdvqpgs1600PigsTrough.jpgimg srchttpislandadv.comwpcontentuploads201101PigsTrough.jpg border0 alt width400 height221 adivBy Alan CarubaUnless I am seriously mistaken or misinformed, the rate of unemployment in the U.S. remains high and the foreclosure rate on homes is approaching the level of the Depression years. Two major bond rating companies, Moodys and Standard and Poors just warned that, if the federal government doesnt stop spending and borrowing, Americas TripleA highest ranking will be downgraded.Along with all the other things in the federal budget wish listfor 2011 are millions to be spent on climate change.It helps to understand how obscene this is if you pause to consider 1 there is not one damn thing anyone can do about climate change, 2 climate change has been researched and studiedsince the late 1980s, enough to fill an entire wing of the Congressional Library to hold all the reports, and 3 the only climate change Americans really need to know about is what the emweatherem will be tomorrow.With a tip of the hat to Climatequotes.com and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences AAAS report on research development, fiscal year 2011, let me share just a few of the ways the Obama administration intends to squander your money.The magic number is 2,481,000 and it represents specific amounts devoted to climate change research or other programs requested for the 2011 budgets by an alphabet soup of federal agencies that include the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Department of Energy DOE, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, National Science Foundation NSF, Department of the Interior DOI, and the Department of Agriculture DOA.The figures cited all come from chapter 15 of the AAAS report and you can access it via a hrefhttpclimatequotes.com20110108howcanclimatescientistsspendsomuchmoneyClimatequotes.comaNOAAs total budget request is for 5.6 billion, an increase of 17. It intends to devote 437 million for climate research funding, an increase of 77 million over last year.Over at the National Science Foundation NSF, its budget of 7.4 billion thats a lot of science! includes a request for 480 million for Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, 765.5 million for NSFs Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability program and 19 million for a joint program with DOE to promote education in clean energy research. An additional 10 million would fund Climate Change Education in the nations schools. Its not education, its indoctrination.The Department of Energy which currently is projecting that permits for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico wont be forthcoming until, maybe, June. DOE seems oblivious to the fact that the price of oil is set to hit 100 a barrel and higher costs will hit everyone driving anything using gasoline or diesel fuel. Fuel oil prices will rise and any business that uses oil or anything made with oil will be forced to raise its prices. In short, everything.DOE, however, is in no hurry and, of course, the Obama administration is dead set against ANWR or offshore exploration and extraction of the BILLIONS of barrels of crude oil projected to exist.However, DOE is set to receive 28.4 billion in 2011 and that includes 4.6 billion for research and development in its Office of Science and 2.4 billion for energy research and development. Its Office of Biological and Environmental Research is devoted to atmospheric science, including climate modeling, which would be allocated 627 million. Last time I checked, oil, coal, and natural gas were not found in the atmosphere, but rather were extracted from deep within the Earth.The entire global warming hoax was and is based on climate modeling, all of which consistently found that the Earth was warming at an alarming rate. Except that the Earth is NOT warming. It has been cooling since 1998. And DOE intends to waste 627 million on more modeling. It is worth noting that the most sophisticated models of the National Weather Bureau still cannot predict with any confidence what the weathernot the climatewill be next week.The Environmental Protection Agency, gearing up to regulate all utilities that produce carbon dioxide and all other industries that do the same, has zero authorization to do so under the Clean Air Act. It is CO2 that is designated by the warmists as the chief culprit for the global warming that is NOT happening.Despite this, EPA has requested 169 million to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with 43.5 million in new funding for regulatory efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act. And it wants 22 million for its Global Change Research Program. It is time to shut down this rogue agency before it totally destroys the economy.Even the Department of Agriculture wants 159 million for climate change research, an increase of 42 and 179 million for renewable energy, to help farmers. Farmers are heavy users of fossil fuels to operate the machinery needed to till, plant, and harvest crops. They need reliable energy, not renewable energy.The Recovery Actof 2009 has managed to blow more than 600 million on climate change research and billions on greenhouse gas mitigation.This is just the tip of the climate change ripoff in terms of billions wasted or soon to be wasted on research that can only be deemed an obscene diversion of taxpayer money that will not benefit a single taxpayer, generate any new jobs except for those in government agencies, and further bankrupt a bankrupted nation about to have its credit rating reduced.The scientists, regulators, and administrators feasting off this federal largess should be handed a shovel to earn a living on one of those shovel ready projects we were told about.Beyond that, if Congress was really intent on cutting back on spending, they could begin by defunding or shutting down the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and all the other federal grifters with their snouts rooting around in the climate change trough. Alan Caruba, 2011divdivdivdiv