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Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:11 AM Jun 2018

Senators call on National Science Foundation to investigate climate change grants

Source: CNN

(CNN)Four Republican senators have called on National Science Foundation Inspector General Allison Lerner to investigate the foundation's grant-making process, citing a grant charged with enabling television meteorologists to provide viewers with climate change education.
In the June 18 letter, Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and James Lankford and Jim Inhofe, both of Oklahoma, express their concern that the National Science Foundation has "issued several grants which seek to influence political and social debate rather than conduct scientific research."


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/climate-change-grants-inspection/index.html



Fuck the gop fuzzy science idiots. For 2018..above normal temps,
drought, no doubt fires in the midwest..Americans need to know
what is happening to the world from global warming...they need
to understand the causes.
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Senators call on National Science Foundation to investigate climate change grants (Original Post) Maxheader Jun 2018 OP
South Texas Floods Trigger Hundreds of Water Rescues; State of Emergency Declared Achilleaze Jun 2018 #1
"Why do republicans hate truth and reality?" relogic Jun 2018 #2
The Trump Party is the new Flat Earthers on climate change. Idiots and liars clinging to their Fred Sanders Jun 2018 #7
Fear the science relogic Jun 2018 #3
This makes me so angry . MBS Jun 2018 #4
They can't handle the truth! Jimvanhise Jun 2018 #5
You are correctly... relogic Jun 2018 #6
Sound like a viable hypothesis to me. pazzyanne Jun 2018 #8
Idiocracy... world wide wally Jun 2018 #9
Yesterday the first day of Spring kimbutgar Jun 2018 #10
Climate naysayers: "It's just... relogic Jun 2018 #11
You must not have lived there very long. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #15
Lifelong native kimbutgar Jun 2018 #16
assholes. Rabrrrrrr Jun 2018 #12
My vacation to Mars... relogic Jun 2018 #13
Probably cheetoz Maxheader Jun 2018 #14

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. South Texas Floods Trigger Hundreds of Water Rescues; State of Emergency Declared
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:18 AM
Jun 2018

republican lies about climate change are dangerous for America. Why do republicans hate truth and reality?

https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/2018-06-21-south-texas-flooding-impacts-forecast

relogic

(155 posts)
2. "Why do republicans hate truth and reality?"
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:29 AM
Jun 2018

T&R contradict their fantasies and willfull ignorance. Many in the faith-based repug affiliates feel that T&R can be ignored because their preferred choice of deity has an invisible plan that works mysteriously to happily screw up all of humanistic improvements.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. The Trump Party is the new Flat Earthers on climate change. Idiots and liars clinging to their
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:54 AM
Jun 2018

beliefs that even they must realize is just pure bullshit designed to feed the brain dead voters who would be challenged to answer, what is the difference between weather and climate...expect may cricket sounds.

relogic

(155 posts)
3. Fear the science
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:36 AM
Jun 2018

They don’t like science when it indicts the destructive effects of fossil fuels. Science is only useful when high tech computers of the 21st century can mine selected data to establish your opponent is secretly married to multiple goats, runs pedaphilia slave markets out of pizza shops and such.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
4. This makes me so angry .
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 08:41 AM
Jun 2018

I have really had it with the Flat Earth Caucus (Inhofe is a founding member) and their ignorant, destructive ways. WTH is wrong with these people, and the voters who continue to support them?

NSF supports basic research; it has no political agenda other than the support of basic scientific research for the national good. That mission includes initiatives - including community outreach - to educate students and citizens about the results of that research.

The actions of these willfully ignorant, cynical senators endanger our present and future national security.
God, I hope that Beto can somehow take Cruz down in the coming election.
November can't come too soon for me.




Jimvanhise

(302 posts)
5. They can't handle the truth!
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:28 AM
Jun 2018

I think they are pissed because a judge has ordered Scott Pruitt to provide the evidence behind his claims that climate change isn't real and isn't being caused by human activity.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
8. Sound like a viable hypothesis to me.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 10:26 AM
Jun 2018

Let's see if Scotty can dig up the evidence to support his claims. Good luck, Scotty! LOL

kimbutgar

(21,161 posts)
10. Yesterday the first day of Spring
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 11:18 AM
Jun 2018

It was so chilly in San Francisco my hubby turned on the heater. It’s foggy usually but not cold this time of year. Our weather has been so erratic.

Something is going on globally weather wise and these idiots are just paid whore to oil and gas doing their masters bidding.

relogic

(155 posts)
11. Climate naysayers: "It's just...
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 11:36 AM
Jun 2018

an earth epoch cycle unfolding as usual. These things happen every so six thousand years (you know like the buy bull clearly says). After all, famine, earthquakes, bad Presidents, poor people we will always have because they show we care.

Erratic weather? I don’t understand climate or weather-must be the same. Climate designers brought to you by your neighborly god, that’s it.”

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
15. You must not have lived there very long.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:53 AM
Jun 2018

There's an old saying that the coldest winter you will ever spend is a summer in San Francisco.

kimbutgar

(21,161 posts)
16. Lifelong native
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:19 AM
Jun 2018

Born and raised. The weather has changed so much in my lifetime living here. One day hot the next cold. Friday it was 73 degrees warm and sunny. The deviation from one day to the next is what is so strange.

Our summers are usually foggy, brisk and muggy. It was just bone chilling cold on 6/21.

Rabrrrrrr

(58,349 posts)
12. assholes.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 11:42 AM
Jun 2018

I'm curious how the Space Force is going to be built - if science is nothing but an opinion to these ignorant tools of hate and stupidity, good luck building shit. "Oh, sure, the experts say that space is a vacuum, but I have a vacuum, and there are no planets in it. How can you have planets in a vacuum? We don't need ships that are sealed up. That's just propaganda from the scientists who profit from the spaceship window agenda."

relogic

(155 posts)
13. My vacation to Mars...
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 11:50 AM
Jun 2018

has been cancelled due to some planetary dust storm occurring presently. That vacuum I was toting along in my carpetbag should be large enough to take care of any nasty dirt that migh clog up my kerosene furnace when I set sell for that Caribbean destination next time.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
14. Probably cheetoz
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 11:56 AM
Jun 2018

is worried about other countries space/space technology
programs. Twinky hates to be shown up as ignorant...
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