Uh oh: 5% funding cut means less fossil-fueled anti-fossil fuel junkets for federal government employees

Sequester Hits Nation's Climate Change Research Capability | InsideClimate News

The USGS took about a 5 percent cut, equivalent to about $55 million in lost funds. The Climate Science Centers will likewise lose around 5 percent of their overall funding, which totaled $25.2 million in fiscal year 2012
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"We try to have our agenda be not only well-tuned to our region but also to the larger agenda of climate research around the country," said Steven Daley-Laursen, principle investigator for the Northwest Climate Science Center at the University of Idaho.

"Any time we slow down the climate science machine, we're taking away options or opportunities to have a positive effect and turn around the negative effect of what we've done to cause climate change up to this point. The changes are upon us, and some are going to be irreversible. It's a critical time to keep climate research growing."
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The sequester also makes it harder for scientists, students and stakeholders to travel to conferences, which act as melting pots for ideas that fuel research and on-the-ground action. Only 14 USGS employees attended the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting in April rather than the dozens who signed up before the sequester. The American Indian and Alaskan Native Climate Change Working Group meeting last month drew 80 people instead of the expected 150, McPherson said.