"High tides have been getting higher and low tides lower at cities around the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study produced in part by scientists at the University of South Florida." Craig Pittman, "Study: Higher Tides From Climate Change Likely to Make Hurricane Flooding Worse" (Tampa Bay Times Online, Wednesday, January 22, 2014).
The article you are reading is not about climate change. That is covered by the article in the newspaper linked above.
Instead this article covers the payment of studies about climate change. The University of South Florida's study of higher and lower tides at Gulf Coast cities is featured in the above article. The University of South Florida is located in Tampa. Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast. It stands to reason that researchers at the University of South Florida are capable of providing measurements and results from tests on Gulf Coast tides, that researchers located elsewhere cannot match as easily, if at all, simply by USF's location at the Gulf Coast.
Hurricanes are still being examined at Colorado State University in the Rocky Mountains, however. The CSU researchers are operating with Federal Taxpayer dollars first awarded in the George W. Bush administration. (Whether Federal Taxpayer dollars were awarded to CSU before or after Hurricane Katrina is not presently known.) The Rocky Mountain Gang has predicted the number of hurricanes and named storms every year since, and most every since, they have been wrong. Further, the United States Taxpayers already pay for a National Hurricane Center located in Florida. And the National Climatic Data Center located in North Carolina. These facts have previously been reported under the categories of "Hurricanes" and "Catastrophe Claims," and most recently in this article posted on January 19, 2014 on Insurance Claims and Bad Faith Law Blog.
How long can we afford to funnel Federal Taxpayer dollars to pay for failed results? At a time when officials argue that unemployed people should take low-paying jobs which provide no benefits so that favored entrepeneurs can sell products, how long can we afford to use Federal Taxpayer money for these results? How long can we afford it?
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