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02/04/2008: "Bush wants to beef up Earth monitoring"

After years cutting of budgets for tracking global warming, President Bush on Monday proposed more than a $1 billion increase over the next five years for launching more and better Earth-observing satellites.

[ A sensible approach: get better data before making politically-based decisions. Wish he'd paid attention to this in the other seven years of his presidency, and that current global warming activists would heed the complexity of this issue: environmental genocide is the issue, not just global warming! ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080204/ap_on_sc/budget_earthwatch