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Report Challenges Ambitious Plan for U.S. Climate Research
from ScienceInsider
A report from the National Research Council (NRC) released today (January 5) points out that a draft federal plan to coordinate research into how to respond to climate change is unlikely to succeed without added resources and new ways to manage the program.
The NRC committee--chaired by climate modeler Warren Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado--commends the 21-year-old U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for proposing to broaden its scope beyond coordinating basic climate research. Its new draft strategic plan includes research that would support society's efforts to reduce the magnitude of greenhouse warming and other climate change--and to adapt to any unavoidable change....
The rub comes in how to support and manage such ambitions. "The USGCRP and its [13] member agencies and programs are lacking in capacity to achieve the proposed broadening of the Program," says the report. "Member agencies and programs have insufficient expertise" to integrate the social and ecological sciences into the program or to develop the capacity to support decision makers.
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