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1 Introduction
Pages 7-14

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... report Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program (NRC, 2005) provided a framework that would enable CCSP managers to make strategic decisions about the entire program, and CCSP asked this committee for guidance in building from it.
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... . The USGCRP, the first federally coordinated program supporting climate change research, began as a presidential initiative in 1988 and received congressional support in 1990 under the Global Change Research Act. The act called for the development of a research program "to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change," and it guided federally supported global   Public Law 101-606(11/16/90)
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... In 2001, President Bush launched the CCRI to investigate uncertainties and set new research priorities in climate change science. The CCRI also gave priority to research that could yield results within a few years, either by improving decision-making capabilities or by contributing to improved public understanding. The two programs were merged the following year, and a cabinet-level management structure was introduced to improve coordination between the CCSP, a parallel program to promote the development of new technologies for monitoring or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions (the Climate Change Technology Program)
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... In particular, paleoclimate research under the USGCRP was apparently folded into the CCSP climate variability and change research element, and a new research element on land use and land cover change was added. Finally, the CCSP has identified six issues (e.g., modeling, observations)
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... bThe budget for the CCSP human contributions and responses research element is $147.6 million, including $62.8 million for NASA programs on decision support and $57.2 million for National Institutes of Health programs on the health effects of ultraviolet radiation. Funding devoted to human dimensions research is probably $25 million to $30 million (see Appendix B)
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... Two of the IWGs (human contributions and responses/decision support resources and climate variability and change/modeling) cover both a fig 1-2 research element and a cross-cutting issue.
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... is assessed in Chapter 5. Input for the evaluation was gathered from CCSP reports and presentations, the scientific literature, responses to a questionnaire on funding and programs under the human contributions and responses research element (summarized in Appendix B)
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