EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL OF ADVISORS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20502 March 2013 A primary goal of a national climate strategy should be to help the Nation prepare for impacts from climate change in ways that decrease the damage from extreme weather and other climate-related phenomena (i.e., increase robustness) and ways that speed recovery from damage that nonetheless occurs (i.e., increase resilience). Recent disasters involving extreme weather events (including Hurricane Sandy, extreme drought, and rampant wildfires) have underscored the Nation’s vulnerability and the urgent need for preparedness. Preparedness against major threats is a critical responsibility of the Federal Government, working with the States. An ongoing focus on preparedness, moreover, will help Americans understand that climate change is a clear and present threat, whose effects are already visible, expensive, and worsening (rather than a distant issue with impacts many decades hence). A preparedness strategy that engages state and local officials, as it must given the geographic variation in climate-change effects and vulnerabilities and the need for state and local actions to address them, will also strengthen the national constituency for the omprehensive approach to climate change — mitigation as well as adaptation — that is needed. whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_energy_and_climate_3-22-13_final.pdf
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