This is reminiscent of communist Russia with their disastrous five year plan, which while the plan encouraged industrialization, damaged Soviet agriculture to such an extent that it didn’t recover until after the Second World War. The plan was considered by the Soviet leadership so successful in this sense that the second Five-Year Plan was declared in 1932, lasting until 1937. (source: Wikipedia)
In the same vein, the US opens a new line of attack in the AGW battle, which I expect to damage both industry and agriculture:
Administration Releases 10-Year Global Change Strategic Plan
The Obama Administration today released a 10-year strategic plan for research related to global change, identifying priorities that will help state and local governments, businesses, and communities prepare for anticipated changes in the global environment, including climate change, in the decades ahead.
The Plan—released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which for more than 20 years has coordinated Federal global change research— was developed collaboratively by more than 100 Federal scientists. It reflects extensive inputs from stakeholders and the general public, as well as a detailed review by the National Research Council, chartered by Congress to provide independent expert advice to the Nation. The Plan will be implemented through the USGCRP and the 13 Federal departments and agencies it represents.
“Human actions are altering the atmosphere, the land, and our oceans, placing new pressures on the Earth’s ecosystems and threatening the health and economic welfare of our Nation and the world,” said Tom Armstrong, Executive Director of the USGCRP. “High-quality and well-coordinated research is essential if we are to better understand and predict future changes, develop strategies to minimize our vulnerabilities, and adapt to changes that can’t be avoided.”
Federal research under the USGCRP has for two decades focused largely on detailed documentation of specific environmental changes by satellite and other Earth-observing technologies and the development of sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s climate system to predict how such changes will manifest in the near-term. In the ten years going forward that emphasis will expand to incorporate the complex dynamics of ecosystems and human social-economic activities and how those factors influence global change. By including these added dimensions, USGCRP-sponsored research will generate information of unprecedented practical use to decision-makers in a wide range of sectors including agriculture, municipal planning, and public works.
“It is no longer enough to study the isolated physical, chemical, and biological factors affecting global change,” Armstrong said. “Advanced computing technologies and methods now allow us to integrate insights from those disciplines and add important information from the ecological, social, and economic sciences. This new capacity will deepen our understanding of global change processes and help planners in realms as diverse as storm water management, agriculture, and natural resources management.”
The Strategic Plan describes four key goals for the USGCRP during 2012 – 2021:
- Advance Science: Advance scientific knowledge of the integrated natural and human components of the Earth system, drawing upon physical, chemical, biological, ecological, and behavioral sciences.
- Inform Decisions: Provide the scientific basis to inform and enable timely decisions on adaptation to and mitigation of global change.
- Conduct Sustained Assessments: Build a sustained assessment capacity that improves the Nation’s ability to understand, anticipate, and respond to global change impacts and vulnerabilities.
- Communicate and Educate: Broaden public understanding of global change and support the development of a scientific workforce skilled in Earth-system sciences.
Work towards these goals will help the USGCRP fulfill its Congressional mandate to “assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change,” as called for in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. To achieve these goals, USGCRP is developing an implementation strategy that will draw in part upon its expertise in conducting National Climate Assessments—broad assessments of global change impacts across U.S. economic sectors, the latest of which is currently under development.
In combination with USGCRP’s expanding communication and education activities, the new scientific findings and decision-support tools expected to emerge from the Strategic Plan will empower a broad range of stakeholders to make more informed and effective decisions as they prepare for and respond to the many dimensions of global change.
To learn more about USGCRP please visit: http://library.globalchange.gov/us-global-change-research-program-factsheet
http://www.globalchange.gov/whats-new/689-new-usgcrp-strategic-plan-for-2012-2021
OK, but we’re still cooler now than during the four interglacials prior to our own.
I’ll be discussing the effort to sterilize poor Indians in order to mitigate climate change tomorrow morning on Varney & Co. at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Good acronym … USGCRP, United States Globalist CRaP ….
How is it that humans are considered the enemy? What do they want,
an empty planet? Time to start moving forward and develop the
resources we have, to support (and indeed, rebuild) the country,
the infrastructure, and the society in general. Would that those
billions went to something useful.
MSM will probably have “the sky is falling…film at 11″…
Some of the goals sound like a hollow echo of NOAAs motto…
Really scary and a complete disregard and disconnect from reality that prove the claims and assumptions about CO2 causing climate change to be false.
This is a fake religion and political movement to control the worlds wealth and resources and it is obvious the Obama administration is complicit in assisting all who are involved to implement it.
Sounds like a good excuse for a Vegas love fest with bicycle parts for a team building exercise.
This crowd just.will.not. be satisfied until we’re all living in huts, burning yak dung for cooking. “Forward” indeed.
Seems like they’ve already decided that global change is happening from humans…I like the focus on scientifc knowledge, but they’re starting out biased. To me this says that we will have to adapt, we just want the science to tell you how to adapt immediatly when necessary. I wonder what will happen as the Earth cool’s if they will try to mitigate that
Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970’s, ‘If you control the oil (CO2), you control the country; if you control food (CO2), you control the population.
They want to dominate the rest of academia as thoroughly with their taxpayer funded green-money as they dominate climate science, and academia, already hiking up its short skirt, is more than eager to be bought.
Is it now just “global change?” My how the science is settled.
Yep we ought to be getting even cooler by then.
new term “global change” LOL ridiculous
It would be foolish not to plan for the possibility that the National Academies of Science of every major country are correct and the bloggers and talk show hosts are not.,
I can see the Soviet Union from the 21st century. Well, maybe its earlier, more despotic variant. It appears these fanatics are committed to consolidating wealth and power under their control. Science will simply be another victim to exploit as their selfish interests take precedence.
Anyway, it’s telling that they have not actually pursued any mitigating actions to secure America’s future. In fact, quite the contrary, their policies have advanced progressive corruption of individuals and society, denigrated individual dignity and devalued human life, and left our nation more vulnerable to collapse. Still, the rhetoric is emotionally appealing.
As for the “advanced computing technologies and methods”, they are increasing precision without increasing accuracy. Their models integrate an incomplete and, apparently, insufficient characterization of the system, both natural and human. They assume statistical models where they are only capable of describing limiting behaviors. They lack the skill now, and for the foreseeable future, to make their predictions.
> It reflects extensive inputs from stakeholders and the general public,
Hmmph. They didn’t ask me. The stakeholders probably warned them.
The only information you need to know from this: “…the total FY 2010 budget for USGCRP of $2.18 billion.” pg 106
Sounds like a nonstop gravy train.
“High-quality and well-coordinated research is essential if we are to better understand and predict future changes, develop strategies to minimize our vulnerabilities, and adapt to changes that can’t be avoided.”
He left out “well-funded”…
There is a letter missing in the acronym : USGCRaP Sorry. 😉
“Global change”?
Sounds like Obie is trying to use the DOT (Department of Transportation) method of planning for his climate change great expenditure long range plan.DOT plans things far into the future and tries to lock into the plan all possible options. While it is difficult to stop DOT’s plans from coming into fruition, it is even harder to remove options out of their plan permanently.
Like congress’s frustration with EPA, actually passing an end of existance law is harder than starting the dang department. Once there is a plan, bureaucracy will come into existance as people are placed to track adherence to the plan and then others will be hired to manage it.
May Congress recognize it for the “tomato that ate Chicago” this plan is and defund it forever. (along with all of those CAGW alarmist sponges).
Communists acting like communists for the implementation of communism. Who’d a thunk it?
Government isn’t the solution, goverenment is the problem.
152 pages, 32 MB of BS. Lot’s of pretty pictures. Lot’s of “Goals and Objectives”. One pie chart about how they are going to divvy up $2.18billion. Nothing that anyone with a clue about Strategic Planning would recognize. Note even a lousy Milestone chart. Basically a wish list and job security. Improve this, assess that, communicate the other thing. This will sit on a shelf and collect $2.18 billion dollars of dust. Paid for by US Taxpayers. Gee, thanks y’all.
Ontario only has four year plans, 2011 – 2014, is our current window. I guess that our Premier thinks he can do as much damage in four years as Obama can do in ten — and most here would judge that assessment to be correct.
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/environment/en/category/climate_change/index.htm
Most people here do not even know that these plans exist.
WillR says:
May 1, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Most people here do not even know that these plans exist.
Agenda 21. If you don’t know of it, get crackin’. (I’m assuming YOU do WIll, but that’s for other’s benefit.)