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Science 30 October 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5953, p. 643
DOI: 10.1126/science.1179807
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Editorial

Beyond Climate Science

Eric J. Barron

The United States is moving rapidly into an age of climate-related decisions involving mitigation and adaptation, following decades of focusing on reducing uncertainties in attribution and prediction. But the nation lacks a deliberate approach to generating the "environmental intelligence" needed to support good decisions.

Eric J. Barron is director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

E-mail: barron{at}ucar.edu

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