The Environmental Protection Agency is formally moving forward with its Climate Change Adaptation Plan.
Beginning Friday, the EPA is accepting comments on its draft plan, which calls for the agency to amend its operations – including the promulgation of new regulations – to account for increasingly rapid global warming.
“It is essential that EPA adapt to anticipate and plan for future changes in climate,” according to the 55-page plan, which carries a 2012 date but was put forth now for public consideration. “It must integrate, or mainstream, considerations of climate change into its programs, policies, rules and operations to ensure they are effective under future climatic conditions.”
Rising sea levels, loss of snowpack and drought linked to climate change will likely require the agency to take additional steps to protect watersheds, wetlands and water supplies, the report argues.
Increasing temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, meanwhile, will demand measures to protect public safety and adapt emergency response plans, it says.
The report does not propose specific rules, but rather sets a framework to support and prioritize future actions. By 2015, the report says, EPA will have integrated “climate change science trend and scenario information” into its rule-making processes.
The agency would also account for future global warming in its grant and loan programs and contract decisions by that year, according to the report.
The plan stems from President Obama’s 2009 executive order requiring federal agencies to issue annual Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans, which set targets for reducing waste and pollution. For the first time this year, those plans include the climate change adaptation plans.
The public has 60 days to comment on the plan.
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Beginning Friday, the EPA is accepting comments on its draft plan, which calls for the agency to amend its operations – including the promulgation of new regulations – to account for increasingly rapid global warming.
Rising sea levels, loss of snowpack and drought linked to climate change will likely require the agency to take additional steps to protect watersheds, wetlands and water supplies, the report argues.
Increasing temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, meanwhile, will demand measures to protect public safety and adapt emergency response plans, it says.
The report does not propose specific rules, but rather sets a framework to support and prioritize future actions. By 2015, the report says, EPA will have integrated “climate change science trend and scenario information” into its rule-making processes.
The agency would also account for future global warming in its grant and loan programs and contract decisions by that year, according to the report.
The plan stems from President Obama’s 2009 executive order requiring federal agencies to issue annual Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans, which set targets for reducing waste and pollution. For the first time this year, those plans include the climate change adaptation plans.
The public has 60 days to comment on the plan.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energyenvironment/281915-epa-puts-forward-climate-change-adaptation-plan#ixzz2KKMQNgkH
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Global warming stopped about 10 years ago. Antarctica had record cold temperatures last year.
ReplyDeleteBut even more worrisome is that the sun appears to be going in to a new Maunder Minimum and earth cold become significantly cooler.
Oh and don't get me started on the Ice Ages. 90,000 years of frozen hell followed by 12,000 years of comfortable temperatures. Care to guess where we are? We are overdue for the next ice age. Oh, lets eliminate man-made global warming so that the world starves to death because it can't grow potatoes in frozen ground. BRILLIANT! not.
The Science of Climate Change,and the lack of information as to the true cause is somewhat sketchy,no hard evidence to date.
ReplyDeleteThat said there is some information in the report from the IPCC that they are trying desperately to minimize,
Observations are indicating a role for the activity of the sun on temperatures beyond what is currently being used in used in climate models. The models include solar irradiance, but not the other still uncertain/undiscovered amplifying mechanism.
The passage accepts that the sun has a greater role in temperature than is currently used in climate models
The real cause has not been determined,or proven.
The only fact is the climate on this Planet has been ever changing from day one,Humans and SUVs or not.
I think Proof as to cause before further destroying economies.
After scanning through all 55 pages I want to kill myself.
ReplyDeleteRead the second to last paragraph in section 3.3.3 if you have a strong stomach and acceptance of fools.
Now I begin to understand where 3.5T can disappear to each year.