{"id":1131,"date":"2009-05-11T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2009-05-11T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:01:10","slug":"noaa-adminstrator-lubchenco-on-living-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/05\/11\/noaa-adminstrator-lubchenco-on-living-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA adminstrator Lubchenco on Living on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of NOAA (who, by the by, is a former president of ESA), gave a great interview on this week\u2019s Living on Earth series<\/a>.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t listen to Living on Earth, it\u2019s an excellent weekly radio show by Public Radio International that focuses on environmental issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lubchenco told the Living on Earth folks that she wants to start a National Climate Service, which would be akin to the National Weather Service and would predict the effects of climate change on different sections of the U.S. in the coming decades.\u00a0\u00a0 She gave the example of changing water availability as one important use of such a service:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Fundamental changes in the availability of water are so basic to planning, not just for city managers, but for agriculture, for traffic on rivers, how to think about droughts, floods, fire, insect outbreaks\u2026 The ability to have an idea of what\u2019s down the road, even though it\u2019s not super precise, is immensely useful in planning. So there are lots and lots of requests now \u2013 by water managers, by city planners, and others \u2013 for information, and there\u2019s no one place they can go.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She said that she would like NOAA to be able to get climate information and predictions to managers at at the regional scale for a \u201ctwenty to fifty year time horizon.\u201d\u00a0 She also commented that she thinks the goals the Obama administration has put forth for curbing climate change \u2013 such as an 80 percent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050 \u2013 is an appropriate and achievable goal. Finally, she pointed to the urgency of addressing climate change, again quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: \u2018too late\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to a podcast of the interview here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of NOAA.<\/span>
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Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of NOAA (who, by the by, is a former president of ESA), gave a great interview on this week\u2019s Living on Earth series.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t listen to Living on Earth, it\u2019s an excellent weekly radio show by Public Radio International that focuses on environmental issues. Lubchenco told the Living on Earth folks that she wants…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,89,10],"tags":[60,178,247,113],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-education","category-ecology-in-policy","tag-climate-change","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-jane-lubchenco","tag-noaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}