Federal climate change initiative under the gun

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Four years ago, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) — a federal initiative to coordinate and direct federal climate change research at 13 agencies — agreed to prepare 21 reports on various topics related to climate change and its impacts by the end of September 2007. As of December, however, only four had been released. And now, Congress and many scientists are taking the program to task.
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Another problem, Ramanathan says, is CCSP’s shrinking budget, which has fallen from a peak of $2 billion to about $1.7 billion. And that money is controlled not by CCSP, but by the 13 agencies that make up the program, including NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy. “CCSP is five or six levels removed from the authority and they don’t control the budget,” Gulledge says. “One could look at their organizational chart and say [the program] was designed to fail.”