Daily Kos: What does Rep. Broun of Georgia have against a National Climate Service?

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is on a mission to de-fund climate change programs and defeat cap-and-trade legislation. This week he offered a House floor amendment to kill funding for a National Climate Service. Broun’s website includes this: “Broun Bashes Wacky-Marxist Cap and Tax Bill.” He’s among a small contingent in Congress who deny the science and a much larger group who act as if a sober response to global climate disruption were a partisan issue. The climate science and policy community must step up its efforts to emphasize that climate change affects everyone, has no political party affiliation, and is too urgent a matter to be used for political grandstanding.

[That's not a private jet, is it?]  [Gallant global warming fighter] Schwarzenegger tweets about jet's emergency landing - CNN.com

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A plane carrying California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an emergency landing Friday evening after the cockpit filled with smoke, his office said in a statement.
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Schwarzenegger confirmed the incident with a tweet on the social-networking Web site, Twitter. He also included a photo of the jet on the tarmac.

[Hmm--could small amounts of CO2 be plausibly blamed for a killer freeze in Iowa?] New forecast: ‘Mass starvation’

[Chicago-based Don Coxe, a leading agricultural industry expert] explained climate change will make growing seasons shorter, generating lower crop production, which would squeeze supplies.
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“During this decade, the annual increase in hectares of global cultivated farmland has been roughly 1.5 percent, at a time global demand for grains and soybeans has been growing at double that rate,” he told Commodities Online. “We will be dealing with mass starvation with the first serious crop failure. It could happen as early as this fall if for instance we have a killing freeze in Iowa in August.”