June 22, 2001

Bush Proposes New Programs in Climate Science

By JENNIFER YACHNIN

President Bush last week announced several new programs to study greenhouse gases and climate change, and vowed to fully finance climate-change science over the next five years. The announcement followed this month's release of a National Academy of Sciences report, commissioned by the Bush administration, that examined current climate-change science in terms of global warming during the past century.

Mr. Bush proposed the National Climate Change Technology Initiative, through the

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