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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)

http://www.climate.noaa.gov/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

http://climate.nasa.gov/

National Climatic Data Center

http://climate.nasa.gov/

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)

http://www.globalchange.gov/

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

http://www.wri.org/

University of California (UC) San Diego

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/

UC Davis

http://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/

UC Irvine

http://www.uci.edu/climate/

UC Berkeley

http://bie.berkeley.edu/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

http://globalchange.mit.edu/

http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/23/mit-doubles-global-warming-projections/

Yale University

http://www.climate.yale.edu/

Harvard University

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/index.html

Industry

American Petroleum Institute

http://www.api.org/ehs/climate/

World Coal Institute

http://www.worldcoal.org/about-wci/