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Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was created in February 2002 under a new cabinet-level management structure designed to improve government-wide management of climate and related environmental science. The CCSP integrated the then-existing U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) with the administration’s Climate Change Research Initiative. The CCSP was formed with an ambitious, but practical, guiding vision: a nation and the global community empowered with the science based knowledge to manage the risks and opportunities of change in the climate and related environmental systems. Although the U.S. government has sponsored research on climate and related environmental change through the CCSP or USGCRP for more than 15 years, the progress of either program has never been evaluated. Such evaluations are important for identifying strengths and weaknesses and determining what adjustments should be made to achieve program goals. At the request of Dr. James Mahoney, then director of the CCSP, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Science Program to carry out three tasks over a three-year period. The first task—an evaluation of program progress—is the subject of this report:
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Social Science
English
2007
1-145
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