"Bush administration slashes funding for global warming research... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration faces debilitating budget cuts for fiscal year 2005 thanks to the Bush administration's reluctance to combat global warming... Scientists and politicians alike have criticized the proposed budget cuts... The budget cuts also appear to contradict the Bush administration's global warming priorities...  ‘On global warming, the Bush administration fiddles with the funding as the world burns,' said David Doniger, policy director of NRDC's climate center."  National Resources Defense Council, 2004.