Whitehouse science advisers offer their views of (anthro?) climate change
mitigation/management - letter here*. Adaptation ("climate preparedness")
prominently appears as the Plan B (actually item # 1) to failed CO2
policy/technology, ignoring the possibility of post-emissions mitigation or
SRM.
Under the rather dire circumstances the planet now faces and given the
abundance
of GE possibilities proposed, the preceding oversight seems dangerously narrow
minded.
-Greg
*http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_energy_and_climate_3-22-13_final.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/22/pcast-releases-new-climate-report
PCAST Releases New Climate ReportToday the President’s Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to the Presidentdescribing six
key components the advisory group believes should be central to the
Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change.Posted by Rick Weiss on
March 22, 2013 at 01:53 PM EDT
The 9-page “letter report” responds to a November request from the President
for
advice as the Administration prepares new initiatives to tackle the challenges
posed by Earth’s changing climate. The letter calls for a dual focus on
mitigation—reducing the pace and magnitude of climate-related changes—and
adaptation—minimizing the unavoidable damage that can be expected to result
from
climate change.
“Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with
climate change,” the letter states. “Mitigation is needed to avoid a degree of
climate change that would be unmanageable despite efforts to adapt. Adaptation
is needed because the climate is already changing and some further change is
inevitable regardless of what is done to reduce its pace and magnitude.”
The six key components are:
* Focus on national preparedness for climate change, which can help
decrease
damage from extreme weather events now and speed recovery from future damage;
* Continue efforts to decarbonize the economy, with emphasis on the
electricity
sector;
* Level the playing field for clean-energy and energy-efficiency
technologies
by removing regulatory obstacles, addressing market failures, adjusting tax
policies, and providing time-limited subsidies for clean energy when
appropriate;
* Sustain research on next-generation clean-energy technologies and
remove
obstacles for their eventual deployment;
* Take additional steps to establish U.S. leadership on climate change
internationally; and
* Conduct an initial Quadrennial Energy Review.
To see the full letter report, please click here.
To learn about PCAST, please click here.
Rick Weiss is Assistant Director for Strategic Communications and Senior Policy
Analyst at OSTP
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