I blame Rush Limbaugh: Pakistan allocates $1.43 million to its own climate hoax ministry, $416 million to the atomic energy sector

Nuke energy eclipses climate change in Pakistan's budget - SciDev.Net

Despite drawing international attention in the past two years to its increased vulnerability to climate change, Pakistan allocated a meagre 135 million Pakistani rupees (US$ 1.43 million) to its newly formed climate change ministry – a fraction of the US$ 416 million given to the atomic energy sector in the budget presented on 1 June.

Chaudhry Qamar uz Zaman, meteorologist and architect of the country's national climate change policy that was approved by cabinet in March, described as "dismal" the allocation for the climate ministry.

"Such low budgetary allocations reflect the insensitivity of the budget planners towards climate change issues the country is grappling with," he told SciDev.Net. Pakistan’s ministry of science and technology, which oversees 16 research and development institutes, received a 12.58 per cent raise, up from US$ 12.19 million in the previous year to US$ 13.94 million.