NCAR Pushes Bush Administration On Funding For Satellites, Buoys, Other Monitoring Systems - D. Post

Boulder scientists asked the Bush administration's Arctic Research Commission on Thursday to push for more money for satellites, ocean buoys and other monitoring equipment to track the severe climate changes now happening in the Arctic.

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Arctic commissioner and chairman Mead Treadwell said he appreciated the trends outlined by scientists from the University of Colorado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder is home to many of the U.S. scientists most vital in Arctic research, Treadwell said. "We want to be sure that the needs they tell us about are incorporated into our recommendations."

Ted Scambos, at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center, said that among other monitoring equipment, researchers need ocean buoys that can track temperatures at the surface and much deeper to follow the fate of glaciers.

The Arctic Research Commission will report findings to the president's science adviser and also to the leaders of federal agencies, such as NOAA and the National Science Foundation, he said. In the past, the commission has emphasized the importance of satellite data-collecting tools, Treadwell said, and may have helped persuade the president to put an extra $90 million in NOAA's proposed budget for next year.

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8200567

The US is going to have to put a LOT of satellites after 2009 to make up for the weather, climate, and space science satellites that Bu**sh** has either cut or delayed. Of course, those satellites are "tattletales" from Bu**sh**'s POV, since they reveal that GW is getting worserer and worserer all the time he's trying to ignore it. Claims that the evidence on GW is still open to debate is a load of, well, Bu**sh**.