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The following article from ClimateScienceWatch.org was posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 and is available in its entirety at the following Web address: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/congress_still_unclear_on_adaptation/ Title: "Climate adaptation policy remains underdeveloped as cap-and-trade dominates the legislative debate" Introduction: This week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee has been considering and marking up (amending) a thousand-page bill formally introduced last week by Reps. Waxman and Markey (H.R. 2454). While the complex details of an elaborate CO2 cap-and-trade scheme remain hotly debated and the central focus of attention, other crucial public policy matters, such as how the federal government will assist communities in anticipating, preparing for, and adapting to the impacts of global climate disruption, are less far along in development. While the “Adapting to Climate Change” subtitle in the Waxman-Markey bill contains some good provisions and some improvements on an earlier discussion draft, we still have a ways to go before we have adequately addressed the federal role in “managing the unavoidable” consequences of climate change, even as we seek to “avoid the unmanageable” impacts by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.