review by the Interagency Committee on Atmospheric Sciences 
of the Federal Council for Science and Technology. The Na- 
tional Science Foundation has established an Office of Climate 
Dynamics to fund and coordinate basic research in this field. 
An international program for the background monitoring of 
worldwide pollution conditions as they affect the global climate 
is under way. This perhaps is the most essential element for 
understanding the impact of man upon climate. The United 
Nations Environmental Program and the World Meteorological 
Organization have taken the lead in this endeavor. The United 
States has moved to establish its monitoring stations which will 
be part of an agreed worldwide network. Under NOAA’s 
Global Monitoring for Climate Change Program, stations have 
been established at Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Point Barrow, Alaska; 
and the South Pole; and one additional station is being estab- 
lished at American Samoa. Other nations are now moving to 
establish stations. Major new efforts directed at understanding 
the role of man-induced versus natural changes in climate are 
proceeding through the medium of mathematical modeling of 
the ocean/atmosphere system in the laboratories of NOAA as 
well as those of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Na- 
tional Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Aero- 
nautics and Space Administration-sponsored Goddard Institute 
for Space Sciences. The Department of Defense is also support- 
ing climate modeling research at the RAND Corporation. 
The committee assessment of increased need to deal with the 
oceanographic aspects of climate makes sense. It is, however, a 
more difficult aspect to deal with. Here we face the need to 
develop techniques for monitoring ocean conditions over long 
periods of time which are economically feasible and technically 
and scientifically meaningful. We also face a broader gap in 
our knowledge of the role of the oceans in controlling climate. 
What needs to be done is to formulate specific programs. We 
welcome the suggestions of NACOA and the reports on this 
subject of the Academies of Science and Engineering. I can 
assure the committee that this will be one of the areas for 
review of the new Subcommittee on Climate Change of the 
Domestic Council as we formulate a national climatic effort. 
The recommendation of NACOA for increased funding and 
a joint effort by the National Science Foundation and the De- 
partment of Commerce/NOAA to organize the oceanographic 
