Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) is Canada's main funding body for university-based research on climate, atmospheric and related oceanic work. As an autonomous, charitable foundation established in 2000, CFCAS "funds research that improves the scientific understanding of processes and predictions, provides relevant science to policy makers and improves understanding of the ways in which these challenges affect human health and the natural environment in addition to strengthening Canada's scientific capacity." [1][2] Its chair is Gordon McBean.
In November 2005, CFCAS issued a letter to the Prime Minister of Canada stating, "We concur with the climate science assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 ... We endorse the conclusions of the IPCC assessment that 'There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities'. ... There is increasingly unambiguous evidence of changing climate in Canada and around the world. There will be increasing impacts of climate change on Canada’s natural ecosystems and on our socio-economic activities. Advances in climate science since the 2001 IPCC Assessment have provided more evidence supporting the need for action and development of a strategy for adaptation to projected changes."[3]
[edit] External links
- CFCAS homepage
- "Climate research funding agency out of money" (Newspaper story) April 10, 2007 [1] Retrieved April 16, 2007.
