NASA plans big boost to climate research budget.

The above headline was printed in the Washington Post newspaper on Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Washinton Post Staff Writer Marc Kaufman. NASA officals laid out plans Wednesday to boost spending on climate research substantially over the next five years, to make up for cutbacks during the Bush administration. The boost increase totals over 62%, or $2.4 billion. NASA has 13 climate research satellites in orbit, which provide most of the needed information, but they are all old, with all but one well beyond their design lifetimes said Micheal Freilich, Earth Science Division director.The agency expects to have launched as many as 10 new missions by 2015 to collect information on issues such as ice coverage and ozone depletion.

Will NASA reveal that they themselves and the other 45 space agencies are the ones mainly responsible for melting ice glaciers and ozone depletion? I doubt this very much. NASA will probably blame El Nino, La Nina or something else other than themselves. Lets not forget that NASA brought forth the names and blamed El Nino & La Nina for all the climatic weather conditions that took place back in the 1970's. They will always be ready to blame anything or anyone but themselves. Ozone depletion in 1980 was documented at 235,000 square miles. The current ozone hole in 2009 is listed at 16.8 million square miles. The satellite launches in 1980 were a total of six (6). This years launches total 402, that is almost a 7,000% increase in the past 30 years. Can NASA still blame others? Sure they will, but all of us should realize the facts and know better!