http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
There is Snow in the Forecast for the West Virginia Allps tonight...Great..& the Arctic Ice Extent looked Sooo Good a couple of Weeks ago..Actually nearing the 30 year Ave & then like the Stock Mkt it is Crashing!..Scarey [censored] (For Snow lovers)..Untill I ran into Good ole Joe's outlook & I felt better...Stay tuned!!

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/23/wuwt-arctic-sea-ice-news-6/#more-19826
There's some fuzzy math out there folks!..Keep your fingers x'd that we can keep our ice..if not we will have to ski canada/ak in the future...

US space spending is probably close to 50$ billion per year if you count everybody up, NASA, NOAA, DoD, etc... ESA is maybe 1/10 of it or so. JAXA? I read 3$B last year.

I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised one bit if DoD has its own weather sats and earth observing sats.

Anyway, I'd tend to believe that where the money is being spent is probably the best *overall* data and analysis. Of course no one is perfect all the time.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
Could this have been the reason for the Al gore/Tipper splitup?

Heh I can just here her sayin" You wouldn't listn to me, i told you so, what are you gonna do now?"

I'm sorry to hear that the Gore's 40 year marriage has gone down the drain:
http://www.mixxbuzzers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/guatemala-sinkhole.jpg