Report Challenges Ambitious Plan for U.S. Climate Research - ScienceInsider

The NRC committee—chaired by climate modeler Warren Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado—commends the
21-year-old U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for proposing to broaden its scope beyond coordinating basic climate research. Its new draft
strategic plan includes research that would support society's efforts to reduce the magnitude of greenhouse warming and other climate change -- and to
adapt to any unavoidable change. "Now that we have a pretty good handle on the climate science," says Washington, it is appropriate that USGCRP begin
fulfilling Congress's intent in 1990 legislation that created a federal interagency group to coordinate research.

...USGCRP principals are "very pleased with the NRC report," says Timothy Killeen, assistant director in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National

Science Foundation and the USGCRP vice chair who led development of the strategic plan. "We do recognize there are some gaps in our capacity."

Coordinators plan to bring in more expertise from USGCRP agencies and nonmember agencies, academia, and state agencies, says Thomas Armstrong,
executive director of USGCRP. Interagency working groups are also being formed that include program managers and scientific experts "who know the
science and can write the checks," says Armstrong.

Scientists Back 'Broadening' Of Climate Research - Orlando News Story - WESH Orlando

(CNN) -- U.S. scientists want to expand research into climate change to focus on its social effects and ways to adapt to a changing planet, but tighter budgets may crimp those plans, the National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday.

US Tornado Trends–Updated to 2011 « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

There has been no significant trend in F1+ tornadoes since 1980, and each decade since then has been less than the 1970’s. The 2000’s show more F0 tornadoes, but this is the first decade Doppler systems have been fully operational, so we should now have a good basis for the future.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Greenpeace´s Naidoo: "We´re not going there and having fun on these ships"

let´s have a reality check regarding Naidoo´s claim that "we are not going there and having fun on these ships".