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Congress Tells NASA to Quit Researching Climate Change and Asteroid Retrieval | Motherboard

[Palazzo] Over the last five years the Earth Science program has grown by more than 40% at the expense of other critical missions within the Science Mission Directorate and elsewhere in NASA. There are 13 agencies throughout the federal government that currently fund over $2.5 billion in climate science research, but only one agency does space exploration and space science. This bill ensures a balanced portfolio of science mission programs by simply moderating the increases that Earth Science has received over the last 5 years.

Amendment Would Give Legal Status To People Displaced By Climate Change | ThinkProgress

Senator Brian Schatz’s (D-HI) filed an amendment for the immigration bill Wednesday that would allow stateless people in the U.S. to seek conditional lawful status if their nations have been made uninhabitable by climate change.

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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds nothing unusual or unprecedented about the North Atlantic jet stream

A paper published today in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society finds no evidence of any unusual or unprecedented changes in the latitude or speed of the North Atlantic jet stream since 1871.