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CONCLUSIONS
Pages 61-62

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... Our ability to anticipate, and possibly avoid, deleterious changes in global climate will depend on our ability to understand how the biological, chemical, physical, and geological processes in the ocean interact with each other and with atmospheric and terrestrial processes. This depth of understanding will be possible only by implementing the carefully planned programs devised by oceanographers in academia and government and by providing access to the necessary "tools" ships, satellite sensors, in situ instruments, oceanic cores, and computer resources to successfully complete these programs.
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From page 62...
... The OSB also recommended that "academia and federal agencies work together to ensure that appropriate long-term measurements are extended beyond the work of any individual scientist or group of scientists and that the quality of such measurements is maintained." A partnership among academia, government agencies, the private sector, and large-scale international and national global and climate change programs should be established. Since the primary goal of global change programs is accurate climate prediction and since the future of our society may depend upon achievement of this goal, global change programs should be carefully planned, thoroughly reviewed, and sufficiently funded.
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