Sunday 28 August 2011

Uh oh House Repubs voted against hurricane forecasting funding

In the US, we rely on the National Hurricane Center to forecast storms.

The NHC is in turn a division of the National Weather Service, itself a part of the NOAA. Which, in the GOPs 2011 budget bill, had its funding slashed by $1.2 billion from what was proposed in the presidents own budget bill, a bill that very notably included a $700 million increase over the previous year to cover needed upgrades to the satellites that gather the data th

Source:
http://motherboard.tv/2011/8/25/remember-when-house-republicans-voted-against-hurricane-forecast-funding--2

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