{"id":507,"date":"1980-01-01T11:54:24","date_gmt":"1980-01-01T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatechronology.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"1980-01-01T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"1980-01-01T11:54:24","slug":"cuts-to-energy-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/climatechronology\/1980\/01\/01\/cuts-to-energy-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to Energy R&D"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reagan Administration cuts energy R&D funding by more than half; numerous battles erupt in Congress over the Department of Energy\u2019s attempts to reduce its climate research budget and the content of climate research programs; the Reagan Administrative is supportive, however, of two major developments related to climate policy:\u00a0 the international treaty to protect the Ozone layer, and the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. <\/strong><\/p>\n

As Karen Fischer-Vanden comments, public dissatisfaction with some of the Carter Administration\u2019s R&D funding decisions \u201cfed an already existing national trend toward more conservative views\u2014including the desire for less government and industry deregulation where preferred actions of private businesses are induced through market mechanisms.\u201d*\u00a0\u201cCarter had earlier asked us to lower our thermostats and wear sweaters.\u201d wrote Richard Cohen in The Washington Post,<\/em> \u201cHe wore one himself. Reagan, who succeeded Carter in the White House, wore only a smile. For him, there was no energy crisis. Whereas Carter had insisted that only the government could manage the energy crisis, Reagan, in his first inaugural, demanded that government get out of the way. Speaking of general economic conditions at the time, he said, \u2018Government is not the solution to our problem.\u2019 He went on to call for America to return to greatness, to \u2018reawaken this industrial giant,\u2019 and all sorts of swell things would happen.\u201d** The Reagan administration is instrumental, however, in supporting the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer [see 1985] and the creation of an international organization to assess scientific and socio-economic information related to global climate change [see 1988].<\/p>\n

* Karen Fisher-Vanden,\u00a0 \u201cInternational Policy Instrument Prominence in the Climate Change Debate: A Case Study of the United States.\u201d ENRP Discussion Paper E-97-06, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, August 1997, 3.http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/gea\/pubs\/e-97-06.pdf<\/a>
\n**Richard Cohen, \u201cWish Upon A Pump,\u201d The Washington Post, <\/em>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/07\/AR2008070702215.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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