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Politics – Earth Observation UnpopularPol cap key to Earth Observation Lambright 10 (W. Henry, professor of political science and public administration and director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, 10/7, http://history.nasa.gov/sp4801-chapter16.pdf, accessed 7-9-11, JMB) The dilemma NASA now faces in designing a post-EOS future is shared with other agencies associated with the global change initiative of the early 1990s this interagency initiative never was fully implemented, coordinated, or led. There is a need to re-energize the vision many of the early advocates of EOS and USGCRP had—a strong earth system science and a capacity to predict global change (especially climate change)—that can be put to policy use. Achieving such a vision requires a planetary perspective and that is NASA’s distinctive environmental competence. It is based on NASA’s mission to the home planet and the comparative approach derived from its work beyond earth. That perspective needs renewal and advocacy for a twenty-first century setting, that setting almost surely will be influenced, perhaps dramatically, by events involving climate change, remaking NASA’s environmental mission, with resources to match, and connecting that role to other agencies and nations is a challenge. It is less a problem in science and technology, however, and much more a challenge of political will. Politics – USGS Unpopular – RepubsRepubs don’t like USGS spending – volcano monitoring CNN 9 (Feb 25, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-25/politics/jindal.volcanoes_1_volcano-wasteful-spending-monitoring?_s=PM:POLITICS, accessed 7-9-11, JMB) Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's swipe at federal spending to monitor volcanoes has the mayor of one city in the shadow of Mount St. Helens fuming. "Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?" Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. "We have one that's very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently." Jindal singled out a $140 million appropriation for the U.S. Geological Survey as an example of questionable government spending during the GOP response to President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night. Politics – Environment Unpopular – RepubsRepublicans oppose ecosystem and climate programs within USGS Kronig 3/23 (David A., 2011, American Institute of Physics, http://www.aip.org/fyi/2011/038.html, accessed 7-9-11, JMB) Republicans on the Energy and Mineral Resources Committee zeroed in on whether USGS was too focused on climate change monitoring and ecosystem restoration at the expense of its natural hazards and mineral resources programs, which they said can save lives and create jobs. In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) said “I’m wondering where the ‘geology’ is at the United States Geological Survey. It’s been completely swallowed up by all the ‘new missions and reorganizations’ at USGS. If I was to guess the name of your agency by looking at your budget it would be called the United States Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Monitoring Service not the United States Geological Survey.” Lamborn opened his questioning of USGS Director Marcia McNutt by quoting the day’s oil and gas prices and their impact on the U.S. economy. “How can the Geological Survey in its budget continue to support cuts in the energy and minerals programs while at the same time increasing significantly the budgets for ecosystem restoration and climate change?” McNutt answered by saying that tough choices had to be made in order to keep the budget to an appropriate level, but that there is not necessarily the bright-line distinction between the various missions that the Chairman’s question implied. By way of example, she cited the Survey’s ability to use ecosystem restoration funds to determine appropriate siting of wind and solar energy production facilities. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) echoed a theme raised by Lamborn, asking why USGS would cut its natural hazards program, which he said could save lives in the near future, while maintaining its climate change program. McNutt answered that in fact the climate change program will take a substantially larger cut than the natural hazards program under the proposed budget. Politics – Climate Unpopular – RepublicansRepublican perception of climate change research causes backlash The Space Review 2/14 (Space Politics, 2011, http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/02/14/congressional-reaction-to-the-budget-request/, accessed 7-9-11, JMB) Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) criticized the budget’s perceived emphasis on climate change research over human spaceflight and said he had a solution: I have a plan to preserve the human space flight budget by transferring money from NASA’s unneeded climate research programs, while keeping NASA’s overall budget at 2008 levels. Climate research is not a NASA mission and there are plenty of other agencies already doing this work. My plan is a win for America and a win for the taxpayers. I’m working with NASA allies, the House budget and spending committees and the Republican leadership to enact these priorities. In the same release Olson also claimed that, “We fought this battle last year and won, and I believe we will do so again.” Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), who ,like Olson, signed a letter last week to House appropriators asking them to transfer climate change funds within NASA to human spaceflight, made a similar call in his own reaction to the budget: After the Administration let NASA flounder for the past two years, a flawed NASA authorization bill was finally agreed to and signed into law. Now the Administration is proposing to ignore this law, placing a higher priority on global warming research and making cuts to the next generation launch vehicle. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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