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Can Congress Change Science?

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On June 8, 2015
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lawmakers-approve-spending-bill-that-cuts-mars-mission-and-noaa/

Congress passed the NASA appropriations bill and through the budgeting process, they are attempting to change science.
I noticed that the budget line item the Republican House axed was for Earth Science Research Program. The bill reduces funding by 5.7%. For those of you who don’t know what the Earth Science Research Program is, please allow me to quote from Wikipedia and NASA

“to develop a scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural and human-induced changes to enable improved prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards for present and future generations”.

In addition, if I may translate once again, “CLIMATE CHANGE.” If the Republican Party doesn’t believe in climate change and their major funding sources don’t believe in climate change then the easiest way to make it go away is ‘not to study it.’ Sounds perfectly logical to me

It may be needless to say, but this bill has many other steps to go through before it sees the light of day. It does however show us how sharp our congress is. Maybe they should do what the Florida Republican leadership has done; they simply ruled that no one in government could use the term ‘climate change.’ Once again, I’m confident that step will improve our climate.

Thank-you, GOP leadership.

Signed –
An embarrassed lifelong Republican

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