U.S. short-changes climate monitoring, report says

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	U.S. short-changes climate monitoring, report says

tfarrow

6-5-2007 9:28 AM

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science, climate, bush, nasa, government

tfarrow says:

Here we go again. Thanks Pres. Bush.

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