White House creates Climate Change 'Czar'

According to a report by CNBC, the White House has created a climate change 'czar' and has tapped a University of Rhode Island oceanographer as the one person who would potentially (and single-handedly) spearhead the Obama Administration's policy on global warming.

Oceanographer Dr. Kate Moran will begin work Monday in Washington. In her former position, she was the associate dean of URI Graduate School of Oceanography.

Moran joins the nearly three dozen other policy 'czars' the White House has appointed to control various aspects of Obama's policy initiatives. The administration has come under intense criticism from Democrats and Republicans for the numerous administration appointments and the potential for Constitutional abuse of power by the Executive Branch.

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) recently wrote in a letter to the Obama Administration that ""The accumulation of power by White House staff can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances."

With many initiatives stalled in Congress, the Obama Administration is using the appointment of unaccountable 'czars' to bypass the constitutional process and implement its agenda without debate.

This latest appointment by Obama of a potential climate change 'czar' is one more indication of potential Constitutional abuse of power and a departure from debate on an issue that will impact the American economy for decades. It also lends credibility to the concerns being raised in Congress on both sides of the political aisle of the unaccountability on critical policy decisions by the Obama Administration.

Moran is a vocal supporter of the global warming theory. In a 2008 Moran testified before a U.S. Senate panel that the links between human actions and climate change are 'unequivocal', according to CNBC. She is a strong supporter of the construction of a massive wind turbine farm on the coast of Rhode Island meant to replace the state's use of fossil fuels.

CNBC reports that Moran was a lead of a 2004 Arctic expedition to study historic climate change. She and her fellow scientists traveled within 155 miles of the North Pole to take core samples from the Arctic Ocean glacier ice formations. The samples indicated the Arctic region achieved an average temperature of 74 degrees during a period of global warming around 55 million years ago. This finding ran counter to previous assumptions that the frigid region was much cooler. The findings could cast doubt that human behavior has a negative impact on the global climate.