A administração Obama abriu um novo website globalchange.gov dedicado, nomeadamente, ao impacto do aquecimento global nos EUA, no seguimento do seu relatório Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: GlobalChange.Gov–US Impacts Summary (slides apresentados acima).
Alguns excertos da notícia dada no Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Lubchenco says, “This report is a game changer,” Holdren says it’s time to act “after many years of dithering and delay,” plus a new website with full report, summ:
"Climate Science Watch’s Rick Piltz, whistleblower extraordinaire, explains why this report is even more newsworthy — 8 years of Bush administration climate-science muzzling:
All of the foot-dragging we’ve seen stems from the perception that climate change is a problem that is down the road, that it will happen sometime in the future, that the problem is remote. The report states unequivocally that climate change is happening now, and in our own backyards. It affects things people care about. The report is good science, science that informs policy. The science does not dictate policy. We must act sooner than later…."
This is the first climate science report to come out under the Obama
administration and the most significant US climate impacts assessment since the
first National Assessment issued in 2000. The Bush-Cheney administration
essentially suppressed the 2000 National Assessment report and abandoned support
for the scientist-stakeholder interaction it had initiated."
All of the foot-dragging we’ve seen stems from the perception that climate change is a problem that is down the road, that it will happen sometime in the future, that the problem is remote. The report states unequivocally that climate change is happening now, and in our own backyards. It affects things people care about. The report is good science, science that informs policy. The science does not dictate policy. We must act sooner than later…."
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