ASA Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee (CCPAC)

Charge:

In cooperation with the Director of Science Policy, advise Congress on climate change issues, with special emphasis on the roles of statistics and statisticians in advancing science and informing policy

Members:

Amy Braverman, Co-Chair; Mark Berliner, Co-Chair; Montserrat Fuentes, Peter Guttorp, Murali Haran, Karen Kafadar, Richard L. Smith, Steve Pierson, Staff Liaison.

Activities:

May 11, 2010 Climate Science briefing, "Climate Science: Key Questions and Answers", with ASA fellow, Richard L Smith
The group has been meeting with congressional staffers to discuss the contribution statistics can make and to learn more of their needs and developing materials for the staff.
Review of Health Impacts of Climate Change
Committee members publish a piece in March 2010 AMSTAT News: "Statisticians Comment on Status of Climate Change Science". On March 31, the authors also participated in an online q&a on the article: http://magazine.amstat.org/2010/03/climatemar10/2/#transcript.
The group helped review the October 21, 2009 joint science organization letter on climate change science and provided advice to ASA President Sally C Morton on signing it.
Review of the paper, "On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change", by Martin L. Weitzman
Produced short documents for its visits to the Hill. StatisticiansHelpingPolicyMakers.pdf, StatisticiansRole.pdf
Mark Berliner’s documents on this committee’s activities and climate change overview

ASA Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee (CCPAC)

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