Advances in scientific methods that integrate
physical climate science with knowledge about impacts on human and natural systems have allowed the new assessment to offer a more comprehensive and finer - scaled view of the impacts of climate change, vulnerabilities to those impacts, and adaptation options, at a regional scale.
OMB and OSTP coordination with USGCRP participating agencies and with Congress will be essential to secure, sustain, and properly allocate funding needed to maintain existing
USGCRP physical climate science research while ramping up the needed impacts and human dimensions research.
Clifford A. Jacobs, the National Science Foundation s section head for the atmospheric research center and related programs, said the decision did not mean that the center was interested only in
basic physical climate science.
I think it is true to say that, for
the physical climate science community, extremes are a tough, tough problem.