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Appendix C: Comments from Individual BASC members
Pages 57-62

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From page 57...
... The viewpoints compiled below should not be construed as the consensus views of BASC/CHDGC, the Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program, or the National Research Council.
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From page 58...
... c. A logical improvement might be for the USGCRP to provide a postdoctoral program to help train a new generation of young researchers from science, technology, and social science to carry out the disciplinary integration which is a stated goal.
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From page 59...
... There is a lot of confusion about what climate services are or should be, but climate information is more straightforward and carries none of the current negative connotations.
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From page 60...
... , with each of these factors making a roughly equal contribution to the current rate of sea level rise." The current estimate of the relative contribution of warming to the global sea-level rise rate shown in B5.2 is about 30%, not 50%. The 50% estimate was biased high due to XBT fall errors (Wijffels et al.
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From page 61...
... In this area, the Plan might additionally reference the need to understand the social-ecological interactions related to consumption choices, governance and institutional structures, and valuation of natural resources that intersect with earth system dynamics and change. It needs to recognize the need for fundamental research by the social science community and for integrating social, biological, and physical sciences in advancing Earth system science and global change research.
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From page 62...
... A concerted research effort in the coming decade will be necessary to frame institutional and educational responses for coming century regarding such evolving changes as Arctic Ocean opening, sea level rise, increasing environmental migration, invasive species expansions, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity on land and the oceans, changes in international trade and cultural values, etc. Complexity "Social system dynamics" are mentioned here, but there is no elaboration.
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