Indeed, most of the improvements in our climate monitoring abilities occurred after the public interest in «global warming» began in the late 1980s, i.e., when governments began
increasing funding for climate research with multi-billion dollar research programmes such as the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Not exact matches
8 USDA «
climate hubs» spread the word In addition to
increasing funding for climate change
research, USDA recently set up eight regional
climate hubs.
Now that we've unlocked its genetic secrets, loblolly pine will take on even greater importance as we look
for new sources of biomass to drive our nation's bioeconomy and ways to
increase carbon sequestration and mitigate
climate change,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), which
funded the
research.
From what I have read,
funding for climate research has
increased by an order of magnitude since the hysteria over global warming began.
[iii] Gene J. Koprowski, Global Warming Skeptics Lambaste Plan to
Increase Funding for Climate Change
Research, 14 Feb. 2010, online at http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/11/obama-spending-
increase-global-warming-
research/; viewed 1/21/2011.
It's
funding for climate change impacts and adaptation
research that has
increased.
«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the claims about
increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about
climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.
climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a)
funding choices
for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National
Climate Assessment.
Climate Assessment.»
First, there was a conspicuous rise in the number of
climate change publications in the 2 years following IPCC 2007, which likely reflects the rise in popularity (among public and
funding agencies)
for this field of
research and the
increased appetite among journal editors to publish these articles.
scientific statements about
climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm, thus raising the political stakes
for policy makers who provide
funds for more science
research to feed more alarm to
increase the political stakes.