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US Congress slashes spending on climate change research

JUN 03, 2016
Physics Today

Scientific American : The 2017 spending bill passed last week by the US House Appropriations Committee calls for a 20% cut from last year’s spending for climate science research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Among the programs affected are carbon-monitoring stations from the 1950s that are in dire need of updating, a proposed facility to verify fossil fuel emissions by nations that signed last year’s Paris climate agreement, and a proposal to expand NOAA’s ocean acidification monitoring program. The bill would also impose a 12% cut from 2016 funding levels for NASA’s earth sciences division.

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