It is no wonder that NWS Deputy Director of NWS John Jones said to Heather on Ask the White House that: "I'm not really a climate change expert,"
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and that staff at NWS offices in the US have told the public "there is no global warming problem".
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The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the National Weather Service (NWS) established the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) in 1989.
www.comet.ucar.edu/aboutus.htm

The COMET course schedule in Boulder, CO for Fiscal Year 2007 has "Climate Variability" but nothing on climate change.
www.comet.ucar.edu/class/common/html/2007course_sched.htm

NWS managers have said climate change is too political and controversial for comment. News media were told that NWS would not accept questions from national broadcasters that dealt with global warming or climate change.
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NWS weather and hydrologic prediction models ignore climate change influences on weather and hydrology. It is misleading for NWS managers to say: "These probabilistic forecasts are really going to lend themselves to predicting potential floods" ... Dean Braatz, the Hydrologist in Charge at NWS's North Central River Forecast Center in Chanhassen, Minnesota,
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It was clear in 1999 and 2000 that climate change needed to be considered in the research, modeling and predictions of weather and hydrology, but NWS management restricted it's hydrologists from doing study on climate and hydrologic change.
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The refusal by NWS managers and staff to learn about and help educate the public on climate change has been a great disservice to the US and the world.

When will there be enough data for managers to understand and say that in order to safeguard the atmosphere and world from climate change there must be strong action to reduce greenhouse emissions at once?

Government managers will likely continue to say they need more data, even though more data is not really needed. Besides, as said by the Deputy Director of NWS in reply to Heather from Hanover in 2003, "I'm not really a climate change expert,".