Who says there's no money in global warming alarmism?
What's a few million dollars among friends?So the next time someone says, "There's no climate-change cottage industry you lying mouth-breathing Fox News-watching Huff-Po-hating planet killer," point them here. From the USGS Newsroom (emphasis added):
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced funding of more than $10 million awarded by Interior's regional Climate Science Centers to universities or other partners for research to guide managers of parks, refuges and other resources in planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change.
The 69 studies at eight climate science centers focus on how climate change will affect natural resources. For example, various projects identify how sea-level rise will affect coastal resources, how climate will affect vegetation, how these changes will affect valued species such as sage grouse, and how changes in water availability will affect both people and ecosystems—and ecosystem services such as fisheries. Several studies address the potential effects on resources of concern to Native Americans, some by using traditional ecological knowledge to advance adaptation planning.
Each of the Department of the Interior's eight Climate Science Centers worked with the universities supporting the CSCs, states, tribes, federal agencies, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and other regional partners to identify the highest priority management challenges in need of scientific input, and to solicit and select research projects.
"Climate Science Centers are off and running to meet the needs of those who must safeguard our precious natural resources as the climate changes. These projects demonstrate the benefits of our national climate science strategy, which is focused on the needs of managers in each region," said Secretary Salazar.
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Now that is too rude. I would never watch Fox News.
"... planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change."
A wise man would study how nature's many species and ecosystems have adapted to climate chnage over billions of years(see "Darwin"), instead of trying to community organize them.