Climate Research and Action in the US
“Senate is unlikely to pass the bill that it feels is being pushed by foreigners” but the truth is that the US pioneered and leads today climate research and action.
National Centers
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Climatic Data Center
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/
USDA Climate Report
http://www.usdaclimatereport.com/
USDA Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/globalclimate/
US Geological Survey (USGS )Office of Global Change
http://www.usgs.gov/global_change/
US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
US Department of Energy (DOE)
http://www.energy.gov/environment/climatechange.htm
Research Association Statements
American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2007climatechange.html
The Geological Society of America
http://www.geosociety.org/positions/position10.htm
American Astrological Association
http://aas.org/governance/resolutions.php#climate
American Physics Association
http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/climatechange08.cfm
Universities and Research Institutes
Texas Universities Climate Change Research (from TWI)
http://twri.tamu.edu/climatechangeresearchers.php
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/climate/Scripps_Climate_Research/
Pew Center
http://www.pewclimate.org/uscap.cfm
World Resources Institute
University of California (UC) San Diego
UC Davis
http://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/
UC Irvine
UC Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/23/mit-doubles-global-warming-projections/
Yale University
Harvard University
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/index.html
Industry
American Petroleum Institute
http://www.api.org/ehs/climate/
World Coal Institute