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New ‘hurricane hunter’ base on schedule for storm season

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Scientists hold signs during a rally in conjunction with the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. The rally was to call attention to what scientist believe is unwarranted attacks by the incoming Trump administration against scientists advocating for the issue of climate change and its impact. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

NOAA agrees to review scientist’s claim that data manipulated to discredit warming ‘pause’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rescue teams on standby for stranded dolphins off Everglades

Associated Press

FILE -- In this photo taken July 31, 2015, an orca whale leaps out of the water near a whale watching boat in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash. The federal government is considering a petition that calls for a whale protection zone on the west side of Washington's San Juan Island. Three groups have asked NOAA Fisheries to establish an area that would restrict most motorized vessels in order to protect endangered southern resident killer whales from noise and other disturbances. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Killer whales could have quiet space off Washington coast

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2016 file photo, visitors from Korea shield themselves from the early morning sun as they tour the Capitol in Washington, with temperatures lingering in upper 90s. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

US had near record heat, costly weather disasters in 2016

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

This Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, shows a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)

NOAA plans to open federal waters in Pacific to fish farming

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

Scientists explore sunken mini sub near Pearl Harbor

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration biologist Benjamin Richards talks about an upcoming study of seven species of Hawaii’s deep-water bottom fish during a news conference on Ford Island near Honolulu, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The first-ever comprehensive survey will bring local commercial fishermen and scientists together to get a count of several species of grouper and snapper, which are popular table fare. NOAA has developed a camera system, foreground, to help capture the data. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Officials partner with fishermen to assess Hawaii table fare

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration biologist Benjamin Richards talks about an upcoming study of seven species of Hawaii’s deep-water bottom fish during a news conference on Ford Island near Honolulu, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The first-ever comprehensive survey will bring local commercial fishermen and scientists together to get a count of several species of grouper and snapper, which are popular table fare. NOAA has developed a camera system, foreground, to help capture the data. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Officials partner with fishermen to assess Hawaii table fare

By CALEB JONES - Associated Press

In this Feb. 23, 2016, photo provided by NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, an orca whale known as L95 swims in the Pacific Ocean near La Push, Wash., shortly before being fitted with a satellite tag. Federal biologists have temporarily stopped tagging endangered killer whales in Washington state’s Puget Sound after a dead orca was found with pieces of a dart tag lodged in its dorsal fin. (NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center via AP)

Tagging source of infection that contributed to orca’s death

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

David Key looks at the back yard of his flooded home in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned today to assess the damage. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

Climate change skeptics scoff as NOAA quickly links global warming, Louisiana floods

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on NOAA's climate change fictions by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

LAMAR SMITH: NOAA’s climate change science fiction

By Lamar Smith

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, a Guadalupe fur seal, front, passes by as a SeaWorld animal rescue team member feeds a California sea lion at their rescue facility in San Diego. Federal officials are trying to determine why endangered Guadalupe fur seals have been stranding themselves and dying along the California coast, hundreds of miles from their usual habitat. The deaths have prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to declare an “unusual mortality event” for the seals. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Large numbers of Guadalupe fur seals dying off California

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press

Climate Change Scam Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

TOM HARRIS: Global warming: Deceptive temperature record claims

By Tom Harris

FILE - In this July 4, 2014 file photo, a man crosses a flooded Highway 64 as wind pushes water over the road as Hurricane Arthur passes through Nags Head, N.C. This year's Atlantic hurricane season has so far had the fewest number of storms since 1983, with only five named storms forming so far in the region: Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and Edouard. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) **FILE**

Forecast sees milder-than-average hurricane season

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, Amanda Ouellet wipes her face with a cold wet towel to cool off while working outside holding an advertising sign in Las Vegas. Federal science officials announced Friday that for the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The heat is on; NOAA, NASA say 2014 warmest year on record

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

A Chinese officer, top right, looks as members of honor guard rehearse for a welcome ceremony held by Chinese President Xi Jinping for visiting Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis at the main entrance of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

FBI eyes Chinese hacking of dams database

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

In this undated photo released by NOAA Fisheries is a ringed seal. A federal agency has proposed about 350,000 square miles of ocean off Alaska's north and west coasts as critical habitat for the seal that's the main prey of polar bears. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, that it's proposing much of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within U.S. jurisdiction as critical habitat for ringed seals. (AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries)

Agency proposes critical habitat for ringed seals

By Dan Joling - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2013 file photo, snow falls as people begin to arrive to the Capitol Building in Washington. Federal forecasters don&#8217;t expect this winter to be a chilly sequel to last year&#8217;s dreaded polar vortex and California&#8217;s rain-blocking weather system. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)-FILE

Feds: Don’t expect winter to be polar vortex redux

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo, Diane Cowan, executive director and senior scientist of the Lobster Conservancy, reads a caliper while measuring a juvenile lobster on the shore of Friendship Long Island, Maine. The Gulf of Maine, where Cowan has been studying the lobster population for more than two decades, is warming faster than more than 99 percent of the world’s oceans. The temperature rise is prompting fears about the future of one of the Atlantic's most unusual ecosystems and the industries it supports. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Warming Gulf of Maine imperils lobster, fish catch

By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press