Climate-Change Program to Aid Poor Nations Is Shut. By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, August 6, 2008. "The National Center for Atmospheric Research, an important hub for work on the causes and consequences of climate change, has shut down a program focused on strengthening poor countries' ability to forecast and withstand droughts, floods and other climate-related hazards. The move, which center officials say resulted from the shrinking of federal science budgets, is being denounced by many experts on environmental risk, who say such research is more crucial than ever in a world with rising populations exposed to climate threats... The Center for Capacity Building was created in 2004. It built on decades of work by its director, Michael Glantz, a political scientist who has focused on the societal effects of natural climate extremes and any shifts related to accumulating greenhouse gases. One scientist, Ilan Kelman, a senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo, said he was 'appalled' that the National Center for Atmospheric Research, based in Boulder, Colo., 'would suddenly end one of the most productive programs and would let go of one of the most productive scientists within the institute.'"
2008-08-07
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