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Report: U.S. climate research in danger - Climate Change - MSNBC.com: "WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's climate change research is threatened by spending cuts that will reduce scientists' observations from space and on the ground, according to scientists commissioned by the research agency to analyze its workings. 'Knowledge of climate variability and change rests on consistent long-term observations that are broadly disseminated and archived for future generations of scientists,' they said in a report Thursday. A major problem, the panel said, is the U.S. Climate Change Research Program director's lack of authority to organize spending and research among the 13 different agencies that study the impacts of climate."