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Scientists urged to influence climate negotiations

MAR 02, 2009
Physics Today

USA Today : Money and politics, the stuff of social science, now drive global warming, and climate science needs to get with it, a National Research Council report suggests.

“Demand is growing for credible, understandable and useful information for responding to climate change,” says the report, called Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change . The report, released Thursday, calls for “transformation” of climate science to emphasize the climate’s influence on food, economics and public health.

Otherwise, there’s lots of evidence that politicians will tackle such practical problems without scientists.

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