The NOAA's original mission: > We face immediate and compelling needs for better protection of life and property from natural hazards, and for a better underst

The NOAA's original mission: > We face immediate and compelling needs for better protection of life and property from natural hazards, and for a better understanding of the total environment-an understanding which will enable us more effectively to monitor and predict its actions, and ultimately, perhaps to exercise some degree of control over them. > [...] > I expect it to maintain continuing and close liaison with the new Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality as part of an effort to ensure that environmental questions are dealt with in their totality and that they benefit from the full range of the government's technical and human resources. - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2575& http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2575& This clearly covers climate change, there's no mission creep.