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National Climate Program Act

An Act to establish a comprehensive and coordinated national climate policy and program, and for other purposes

95th Congress (1977-1978)

Authored by Rep. George E. Brown

East Los Angeles

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92 Stat. 601 - National Climate Program Act

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95th Congress, 2nd Session, 1978

Dates in Session -Begun on Thursday, January 19, 1978 adjourned sine die on Sunday, October 15, 1978

Volume Volume 92

Citation - 92 Stat. 601

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Law Number Public Law 95-367

Date Approved - September 17, 1978

National Climate Act

Associated Bill Number - "H.R. 2808". H.R. 6669.

Summary of Act / Congressional Research Service

National Climate Program Act - Directs the President to establish a National Climate Program to develop and operate a comprehensive climate research, monitoring, analysis, and data management program, improve the reliability of predictive capability and the dissemination of climatological information and alerts, and develop a global climate monitoring system.

Requires the Director of the Program to establish Program policies, priorities, and Federal agency involvement. Directs the Director to establish a National Climate Program Interagency Advisory Committee to assist in such duties.

Authorizes the Director to establish other advisory committees to assist in carrying out this Act.

Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the Department of Commerce a National Climate Program Office to administer the program.

Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to the States for State climate programs. Requires the State Climate Programs to provide the National Climate Program with specified climate-related information.

Requires the Director and the Secretary to cooperate with the Secretary of State in participating in climate-related international conferences and in coordinating the activities of the Program with climate programs of other nations.

Authorizes appropriations of the Program with climate programs of other nations.

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1978, 1979, and 1980 to carry out the purposes of this Act.

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References/Read More

The National Climate Program Act (Public Law 367 of the Ninety-Fifth Congress), called for the establishment of the National Climate Program (NCP), as well as the Climate Program Advisory Committee and the Climate Program Policy Board.

These entities are to issue periodic reports and plans to "assist the Nation and the world to understand and respond to natural and human-induced climate processes and their implications. (Dessler, 2006)" The act required the secretary of commerce to establish a National Climate Program Office that would coordinate efforts and develop a series of research and climate services, drawing together the strengths of NOAA and other governmental agencies. These responsibilities were delegated to NOAA. The Department of the Interior and its U.S. Geological Survey are among the other agencies assigned specific roles under the NCP.

The NOAA Climate Program conducts research and monitoring related to climate, climate change, and climate impact. It gathers and manages data from surface, marine, upper-air, and satellite observations; issues monthly and seasonal predictions of temperature, precipitation, and other weather indicators; predicts the impact of climate fluctuations on water resources, including fisheries, crop irrigation, and energy demands; and conducts new research.

Five divisions of NOAA contribute to these efforts: the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the National Ocean Service; the National Weather Service; and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

Several climate projects under NOAA have yielded important results. Under the direction of the NOAA administration, the United States is part of the Group on Earth Observations, an international organization developing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), which will collect and manage data around the world. NCP awards grants and fellowships for outside research on the Arctic, on atmospheric composition and climate, on the global climate cycle, and other topics. It also operates the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program, a partnership with American universities to connect with local and regional researchers and policy makers. The Climate Program Office operates separate divisions for climate observations, research, climate assessments and services, planning, and communications and education.

By 1984, pilot programs and new structures, including a strongly linked network of regional monitoring centers, enabled the NCP to produce and disseminate useful climate data (Gerrard, 2007). These data were essential in the growing national and international understanding of the causes and the effects of global warming.

As policy makers became more interested in global warming, they were unable to make use of much of the pure science that NCP was conducting, and they pressed for more information in forms that would help them draft policy. In response, in 1990 Congress created the United States Global Change Research Program to increase understanding of and response to global warming through research presented by NCP.

References

1. Dessler, Andrew Emory, and Edward Parson. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

2. Gerrard, Michael. Global Climate Change and U.S. Law. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, 2007.

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National Climate Program Memorandum From the President

October 31, 1978

Jimmy Carter

Memorandum for the Heads of Departments and Agencies

I have just signed into law the National Climate Program Act (P.L. 95-367). I am pleased to commit the Nation to this Program of improving our understanding of climatic changes, both natural and man-induced...

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National Climate Program Act

House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, Report No. 95-266, May 6, 1977

The purpose of the bill is to establish a national climate program which will enable the nation to respond more effectively to climate-induced problems by improving climate monitoring in order to make the government and private sector aware of fluctuations and anomalies in climate, by augmenting basic and applied research, by improving services relating to climate, and by identifying domestic and international impacts of changes and fluctuations in climate. Other contents of the report are committee actions and recommendations; committee views; oversight findings and recommendations;congressional budget act information; cost and budget data; effect of legislation on inflation; and agency comments. (HLW)

Publication Date: 1977-01-01

Committee on Science and Technology, Washington, DC

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Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF

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Ten Years After the National Climate Report and Program Act

A Decade Passes

James Hansen's Warning to Congress in 1988:

Ten years after the National Climate Program Act was drafted by Representative Brown and the legislation's passage led by the Congressman began the federal government's study of climate change, impacts and risks.

The science community and environmental/green movement calls Congress to attention

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