Administration Plans for National Climate Service

Administration officials said they hope to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service up and running by Oct. 1 which will require negotiating with Congress, employee groups and the Office of Management and Budget to hammer out details.

The new service will be what the National Weather Service is for weather, but aimed aimed at planning for climate change. Per the NY Times:

The proposed entity would provide “user-friendly” information to help governments and businesses adapt to climate change, creating a central federal source of information on everything from projections of sea level rise to maps of the nation’s best sites for wind and solar power.

And the hope is that just as the National Weather Service spawned lots of private sector businesses (from Accuweather to the Weather Channel), the Climate Service will do the same.

- NY Times