About OGA
UCAR's Office of Government Affairs monitors the activities of the U.S. Congress and keeps the UCAR community informed on budgetary, legislative, and policy developments involving the National Science Foundation, and other agencies of importance to the atmospheric and related sciences. The Office of Government Affairs also coordinates a number of outreach activities, including educational science briefings for Members of Congress and staff.
What's new
- Hill Briefing June 24, 2008 - "The Energy Challenge of Climate Change: More Urgent Than We Thought" (32 minutes)
- In this presentation for Hill staff, Tom Wigley notes that the amount of carbon-free energy required to stabilize CO2 concentrations has been built into no-climate-policy scenarios. These assumed changes may be unrealistic in the face of rapid development in Asia. Jae Edmonds, states that stabilizing CO2 concentrations at 550 ppm will require new science and technology to reduce the cost of such an effort.
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