BUSH ADMINISTRATION DEFENDS CUTS TO NOAA CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAMS

June 17, 2004
The Bush administration is defending significant funding cuts to climate change research programs sought in fiscal year 2005 by the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), saying that its efforts to address uncertainty surrounding the risks of climate change are more robust than any previous administration. But the proposed funding cuts, which must be approved by congressional appropriators, are drawing scathing criticisms from environmentalists and researchers who charge that the administration is simply ignoring climate change because it does not...


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