New Federal Agency to Track Climate Change

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, raise sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. The new Climate Service will operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service. NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Most atmospheric scientists believe warming is largely due to human actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
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Posted by Editor at February 9, 2010 03:49 AM