C2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 5,1980
Proposed national climate plan
seen as help to farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The Nation’s first national
climate plan, being drafted
by the Government, is aimed
at helping farmers and other
Americans better anticipate
the extent and unpacts of
climate variations, and use
the knowledge for their
benefit.
Edward S. Epstein,
director of the National
Climate Program, office of
the Commerce Depart
ment’s National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
Monday briefed members of
a blue-ribbon advisory
committee on the plan,
which is still in its review
stages. Representatives of
other federal agencies in
volved in the program also
discussed how their agencies
will handle specific aspects
of the plan.
“Advanced knowledge of
ram patterns could have
reduced economic hardship
to farmers and disruptions in
the world food supply,” the
draft plan points out.
“Climate information
would allow shifting to new
crops and storage and
avoidance of some of the
losses. Similarly, knowledge
about temperature changes
could save millions of dollars
ana hours of personal in
convenience.”
A major goal of the plan is
to provide public and in
stitutional users with in
creased and more varied
climate information. This
will include both improved
predictions of what the
climate will be, and greater
distribution of these
predictions and other
climate data to such groups
as state climate offices,
federal agencies, and in
dependent climate experts.
NOAA will be the lead
agency m such efforts.
The Department of
Energy will direct a major
program to find out how the
increase in atmospheric
carbon dioxide - caused by
burning fossil fuels - is
affecting climate, and how to
lessen adverse impacts.
Policy options available for
future planning will be
evaluated during the five
year period of the draft plan.
The USDA and NOAA’s
National Marine Fisheries
Service will continue their
major study of the effect of
weather extremes and
climate fluctuations on the
world’s food supply. Ad
ditional research is being
proposed into the biological
response of livestock and
fish to climate fluctuations.
USDA, as the lead agency,
will determine requirements
for climate information and
prepare all management
and technical plans.
Two major research ef
forts also will be undertaken
to increase understanding of
the effects of climate on our
physical environment.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
will lead an effort to clarify
the processes by which
radiant energy from the sun
is gamed and lost by the
earth’s atmosphere system.
Earth Radiation Budget
Experiment Satellite is
scheduled to be launched m
Fiscal Year 1983.
In the second research
area, the National Science
Foundation will coordinate a
major effort to mcrease
understanding of the ocean’s
role m climate. Researchers
will seek to fmd out how
much heat is stored and
transported by the oceans.
Advances m large-scale
measurements of ocean
currents and temperatures
are planned, possibly
leading to a series of major
international experiments m
the late 1980’s and early
1990’5.
The major strategy of the
plan, Epstein noted in his
presentation, is to em
phasize early production of
useful information, while
simultaneously expanding
our understanding of
climate.
The fiscal 1981 budget
request for all climate
programs totals $135.6
million, and is forecast to
level off in 1984 at $115.6
million.
The draft plan, the five
year program that it
presents, and the advisory
committee, were created
under the National Climate
Program Act of 1978 (Public
Law 95-367). The committee
will review the plan and
recommend changes to the
Secretary of Commerce and
Congress
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