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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Sat Nov 24, 2018, 12:59 PM Nov 2018

When was this joint climate change report mandated?

The Times said it was mandated by congress. When? How? Do we have the wonderful deep state to be grateful to????

And "The White House released it?"

What's up?

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las

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When was this joint climate change report mandated? (Original Post) LAS14 Nov 2018 OP

1980s manor321 Nov 2018 #1

Global Change Research Act of 1990, passed unanimously by House and Senate dalton99a Nov 2018 #2

manor321

(3,344 posts)

1. 1980s

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Sat Nov 24, 2018, 01:01 PM

Nov 2018

USA Today says:

This is the fourth National Climate Assessment. It was mandated by Congress in the late 1980s and is prepared every four years by the nation's top scientists from 13 agencies.

dalton99a

(81,443 posts)

2. Global Change Research Act of 1990, passed unanimously by House and Senate

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Sat Nov 24, 2018, 01:03 PM

Nov 2018

Introduced by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D–SC) on January 25, 1989
Signed into law by George H.W. Bush on November 16, 1990

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