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Review Draft, November 2002
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Foreword
In February 2002 President George W. Bush announced the formation of a new management structure, the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), to coordinate and direct the US research efforts in the areas of climate and global change. These research efforts include the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) authorized by the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI) launched by the President in June 2001 to reduce significant uncertainties in climate science, improve global climate observing systems, and develop resources to support policymaking and resource management. The President's Climate Change Research Initiative was launched to provide a distinct focus to the 13-year old Global Change Research Program. The CCRI focus is defined by a group of uncertainties about the global climate system that have been identified by policymakers and analyzed by the National Research Council in a 2001 report requested by the Administration. The Climate Change Science Program aims to balance the near-term (2- to 4-year) focus of the CCRI with the breadth of the USGCRP, pursuing accelerated development of answers to the scientific aspects of key climate policy issues while continuing to seek advances in the knowledge of the physical, biological and chemical processes that influence the Earth system. This discussion draft strategic plan has been prepared by the thirteen federal agencies participating in the CCSP, with input from a large number of scientific steering groups and coordination by the CCSP staff under the leadership of Dr. Richard H. Moss, to provide a vehicle to facilitate comments and suggestions by the scientific and stakeholder communities interested in climate and global change issues. We welcome comments on this draft plan by all interested persons. Comments may be provided during the US Climate Change Science Program Planning Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders being held in Washington, DC on December 3 -- 5, 2002, and during a subsequent public comment period extending to January 13, 2003. Information about the Workshop and the written comment opportunities is available on this web site. A specially formed committee of the National Research Council is also reviewing this draft plan, and will provide its analysis of the plan, the workshop and the written comments received after the workshop. A final version of the strategic plan, setting a path for the next few years of research under the CCSP, will be published by April 2003. We appreciate your assistance with this important process. James R. Mahoney, Ph.D. |
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