Warmist AMS president Marshall Shepherd digs in deeper: Now he suggests that cuts in fossil-fueled warmist junket travel are like "cuts to a Fire Station station staff...particularly at a time when a rash of arson incidents were happening"

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A community would be outraged at cuts to a Fire Station station staff near them, particularly at a time when a rash of arson incidents were happening.

...I am fearful of what is happening in our community with draconian sequester cuts, challenges to travel/science meeting attendance (I spoke on this last week in a blog at the AMS Front Page, http://blog.ametsoc.org/columnists/for-science-and-discovery-videoconferencing-wont-get-it/), and other stresses on science/R&D support within the National Weather Service/NOAA (journal publications, fees, etc).
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End Note: I am aware of the challenges related to travel and emissions. Three points are worth noting: 1. AMS has a Green Meetings initiatives (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/greenconferenceguidelines.html), 2. Large shifts to videoconferencing are not completely immune as energy is still required to support increased computing/IT requirements for these activities, and 3. Videoconferencing may be highly appropriate for smaller committee and board type meetings but not large scientific meetings, which was the point of my aforementioned blog on the Front Page.