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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA / ˈ n oʊ. ə / NOH-ə) is an American scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Societal Interactions Program (abbreviated as NOAA CSI), formerly the Climate Assessment and Services Division of CPO supports the NOAA Climate Service. [1]
In 1997 the World Climate Research Programme convened a meeting to determine the state of the art of climate research around the world. One of the principle conclusions of that meeting was that the global capacity to measure major climate variables such as temperature, rainfall, wind speed and direction, was inadequate to inform efforts to confront the emerging issue of climate change. [3]
According to NOAA, "human health and safety" and American "quality of life" is "increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change". [8] Like the previous reports in this series, the NCA4 is a "stand-alone report of the state of science relating to climate change and its physical impacts".
The Heritage report says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service’s parent agency, “is one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry ...
Agency overview; Formed: 1841; 184 years ago (): Headquarters: Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. [1]: Motto: OAR's Vision is to deliver NOAA's future. OAR's Mission is to conduct research to understand and predict the Earth's oceans, weather and climate, to advance NOAA science, service and stewardship and transition the results so they are useful to society.
"NOAA has been a key resource in the federal government in providing information about climate change and communicating the risks, and they do so in a very responsible way," Rohde said.
The GCRA requires a report to the President and the Congress every four years that integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP); analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human ...