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On July 1st 1891 history was made
Jul 01, 2009 - 12:44 PM - by KC8TCQ
July 1st 1891: The Weather Bureau (to become the National Weather Service) was created out of the Signal Corps. The Weather Bureau was a civilian organization, as opposed to the Signal Corps, which was military. The Weather Bureau was part of the Department of Agriculture.
Global Warming - Is it a bunch of hot air?
Jun 28, 2009 - 6:43 PM - by ffemt8978
Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations,... [Read More]
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