Forget the economic downturn and endless onslaught of evidence that global warming is a farce, the Obama Administration has a brand new government agency devoted to “climate change” in the works. How lovely.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.

“Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,” Locke said Monday at a news conference.

Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.

Why not an agency devoted to the growing gremlin problem or a Lewis & Clark expedition for fairy dust? Please.