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Jane Lubchenco (b. 1947) is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist. Her previous positions include Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.

She obtained her PhD in marine ecology from Harvard University, and later taught there, as well as at Oregon State University. She was President of several organisations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Council for Science, and the Ecological Society of America.

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White House Climate Science Overseer Sanctioned and Barred by The National Academy of Sciences - LewRockwell

A senior White House climate advisor has been sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences for violating its ethics policies. Axios reports that Jane Lubchenco, the deputy director for climate and environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been pulled up by the NAS for editing a paper later found to contain technical errors, as well as having worked with the scientists involved in it, one of which turned out to be her brother-in law. White House climate official — the notorious Jane Lubchenco — barred by National Academy of Sciences for 5 years for research misconduct. … Continue reading →

A senior White House climate advisor has been sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences for violating its ethics policies. Axios reports that Jane Lubchenco, the deputy director for climate and environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been pulled up by the NAS for editing a paper later found to contain technical errors, as well as having worked with the scientists involved in it, one of which turned out to be her brother-in law. White House climate official — the notorious Jane Lubchenco — barred by National Academy of Sciences for 5 years for research misconduct. … Continue reading →

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Record Year for Billion Dollar Disasters

This year has been an active one for extreme weather in the United States. The damage has been felt in many communities, and the economic toll on the nation has been extensive. Just this past Wednesday, NOAA administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco delivered a speech at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco announcing that the number of billion-dollar weather disasters so far this year has now been updated to 12 breaking the previous record on 9 set in 2008.

Watch Dr. Lubchenco's full address here.

The billion-dollar benchmark was developed to identify the worst weather/climate disasters in the United States in a given year. With its dozen contenders, 2011 has already accrued $52 billion in damages with more to come as costs from storms such as the pre-Halloween snow in the northeast and tropical storm Lee continue to climb. While this is no small sum of money, the cost of this year’s severe weather events is still only the fourth most expensive year on record with damages from Hurricane Katrina still leading the way with almost $200 billion in damages. The impact of these events reaches beyond economic strain however. Already, severe weather has claimed over 1,000 lives this year with 646 lives attributed to the 12 $1 billion storms. Dr. Lubchenco noted in her presentation that these deadly events have been increasing significantly over the past 30 years and asserts that this trend is not likely to slow. In order to continue to save lives in the event of such disasters, it is imperative that the meteorological community and the public continue to learn about these changes and adapt warning, evacuation, and emergency response programs accordingly. The following is a record of the 12 $1 billion disasters in the United States this year to date: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona Wildfires Spring-Fall 2011 Estimated total losses exceed $1.0 billion; at least 5 U.S. deaths. Hurricane Irene, August 20-29, 2011 Estimated total losses $7.3 billion; at least 45 deaths. Upper Midwest Flooding, Summer, 2011 Estimated total losses exceed $2.0 billion; at least 5 deaths. Mississippi River flooding, Spring-Summer, 2011 Estimated total loss ranges from $3.0-4.0 billion; at least 2 deaths.  Southern Plains/Southwest Drought, Heatwave, & Wildfires, Spring-Fall, 2011 Total direct losses to crops, livestock and timber approach $10.0 billion; both direct and total economic losses will rise as the drought continues. Midwest/Southeast Tornadoes and Severe Weather June 18-22, 2011 Total losses greater than $1.3 billion and at least 3 deaths. Midwest/Southeast Tornadoes, May 22-27, 2011 Total losses greater than $9.1 billion; 177 deaths. Southeast/Ohio Valley/Midwest Tornadoes, April 25-30, 2011 Total losses greater than $10.2 billion; 321 deaths. Midwest/Southeast Tornadoes, April 14-16, 2011 Total losses greater than $2.1 billion; 38 deaths [22 of which were in North Carolina]. Southeast/Midwest Tornadoes, April 8-11, 2011 Total losses greater than $2.2 billion; numerous injuries, 0 deaths. Midwest/Southeast Tornadoes, April 4-5, 2011 Total losses greater than $2.8 billion; 9 deaths. Groundhog Day Blizzard, Jan 29-Feb 3, 2011 Total losses greater than $1.8 billion; 36 deaths.

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What we are seeing this year is not just an anomalous year, but a harbinger of things to come for at least a subset of those extreme events that we are tallying.

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco at the American Geophysical Union’s fall 2011 meeting, quoted by ClimateWire (via CP). She's referring to the high number of very destructive natural disasters this year, which has set a record for the number of disasters costing over $1 billion in a single year.

This is a different message than that in Seth Borenstein's original AP article of a few days ago, which quoted Jerry Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado: "The degree of devastation is extreme in and of itself, and it would be tempting to say it's a sign of things to come, though we would be hard-pressed to see such a convergence of circumstances occurring in one single year again for a while." The AP article appears to have been updated to include Lubchenco's remarks. 

At Climate Progress, Joe Romm notes that, "as climatologist Kevin Trenberth always reminds us," a warmer climate is now the environment in which every weather event develops. So even though each individual event was not directly caused by global warming, climate change almost certainly exacerbated many of this year's disasters.

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The marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco has long urged scientists to abandon the habitual reticence of the research community and spend more time engaging the public and public officials about scientific and technical issues.

Now Dr. Lubchenco, a professor atOregon State University, is following her own advice all the way to Washington to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the government’s premier science agencies.

This is only the latest step in a long career of practicing what she preached. In 1997, as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Lubchenco called for “a new social contract” for science, aimed at helping policy makers take steps to sustain the biosphere.