Catch-22: Feds cut climate research to save fuel

June 19th, 2008 in Space & Earth / Environment
Catch-22: Feds cut climate research to save fuel

In this March 20, 2001 file photo, Rainier, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel, is anchored in Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Wash. The federal government is canceling or cutting back on ocean research trips aimed, in part, at studying climate change to save money on fuel for their boats. There is the potential that NOAA may lose a couple hundred days at sea this year. (AP Photo/Lauren McFalls, file)

(AP) -- They haven't rechristened a ship the Irony, but federal researchers are canceling and cutting back on voyages aimed at studying climate change and ocean ecosystems so they can save money on boat fuel.

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