Climate change or weather forecasting: where do resources go?

"We’ve discussed, to some extent, the question of whether large expenditures in NOAA’s budget on satellites (relative to funding of the National Weather Service) has slowed progress in numerical weather prediction. University of Washington’s Cliff Mass, who has addressed that issue as well, posed another critical question today in a thoughtful, provocative blog post: “Why is the U.S. government providing hugely more computer resources for climate prediction than weather prediction?”

Mass contends that the Federal emphasis on long-term climate prediction is a mistake, and that improving our short-term weather forecasts should be a much higher priority."

I don't have much knowledge about distribution of funds in these areas, but I can guess there's more public discussion/pushback on research about climate change (though maybe not when compared to disaster prevention/forecasting). Curious to learn more.