Comprehensive Report on Global Impacts of Climate Change
Posted on: Thursday, 14 May 2009, 12:23 CDT
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a report on global climate change, entitled "Solving the Puzzle: Researching the Impacts of Climate Change around the World," that describes how, over nearly 60 years, NSF-funded researchers have found signs of a changing climate in nearly every corner of the globe, from the icy expanses of Earth's polar regions to its equatorial ecosystems.Climate change research and education has been identified as a Presidential priority area for NSF, and the report's release coincides with the recent announcement of the President's fiscal year 2010 budget for NSF, which includes an increase of approximately $250 million for climate research, which would double NSF's investment in climate research.
The report explores the contributions and on-going activities of NSF-funded researchers in science and engineering fields including ecology, glaciology, atmospheric science, behavioral science, and economics . The report addresses the climate change "puzzle" piecewise--devoting chapters to the sky, sea, ice, land, life and people components of Earth's climate system.
Each chapter includes research highlights that capture the findings of several NSF-funded investigators, from those who have discovered new evidence of Earth's changing climate, to others who have developed cutting-edge approaches for reducing the human influence on Earth's climate, in research areas such as alternative energy and economics.
NSF-funded researchers have revolutionized the way we understand the Earth system as a whole because they've reached across disciplinary boundaries to study questions that extend beyond any one field of science or engineering. Because of the complexity of Earth's climate, this research involves contributions from nearly every field of science, math and engineering.
NSF has also launched a Foundation-wide Climate Change Education program aimed at improving K-12 to graduate education in climate change science and increasing the public's understanding of climate change and its consequences.
These new investments build on the long history of world-class research and education efforts described in the report.
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Posted by Steve B. on 05/22/2009, 12:39 Wishing you all well I would like to comment on this article. My comment includes all articles involving climate change in our recent past. When I was young I was quite busy railing against the machine, so to speak. The cutting of the rain forest. Damming the rivers, and effecting nature in man made ways have always been touchstones for me. When the Sea lion was protected, you can imagine my heartfelt joy, only to be replaced by loathing when they were allowed to overpopulate our shores, decemating the small fish counts. It seems as though every time man gets involved he finds a way to ***** up a soup sandwhich. Where were these die hard Earth savers when the rain forests were being trashed? It's too late now! you can't cut a man's arm off and then hand him a bandaid, this is essentially what we are doing now. The working men and women of this world are not responsible for our current situation. It is, and was the greedy men in power, refusing repeatedly to do the right thing. |
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