Looks like the same old game for the Bush administration. Give a big speech taking the oppositions side away from them, do some back office finagling to ensure what you just promised doesn't happen, and then just assume no one will notice.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.Not only are they scaling back the numbers of satellites but they are pulling out the instrument packages that would have been used to study long range climate data. That'll pretty much put an end to the inconvenience of having your own data used against you in the court of public opinion...or not.
Source: U.S. slashes global warming monitoring | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Tomorrows weather will be brought to you courtesy of the EU and our good buddies in the Bureau of French Climate Studies...Have a great day George, and all the rest of you also.
