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Stern Review Global Warming
U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan
Mandate For Leadership The Conservative Promise Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT

Stern Review Global Warming

In late 2006 we used the Plan Language Analysis (PLA) Tool to analyze a Global Warming document from the European union: "GREEN PAPER A European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy". Our findings are published on our PLA web portal.

From that experience an effort was initiated to try to understand how individuals, organizations, governments and international entities accomplish things. The following new services for a Policy Document Analysis surfaced: Broad Approaches, Institutions, Organizational Tool, and Nation State Tools.

Early in 2007 we were introduced to the Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change. We subjected the Stern Review to our Generic Document Analysis (GDA) tool. This effort tool approximately 3 days to complete, including the writing of this report and updating the web portals. The findings are captured in a final analysis report  (pdf) and the individual GDA pervious analysis templates.

Analysis Results (pdf)

Broad Approaches . Institutions . Societal Approaches

Organizational Tools . Nation State Tools . International Tools . Social Warnings

National Roles . International Roles . Special Interests

Emotions.html . Overall Reaction

U.S. Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan

In December of 2006 the United States released the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program STRATEGIC PLAN from the Executive Office of the President, U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585, http://www.climatetechnology.gov . We analyzed this plan and the results are as follows:

Global Warming Compare (pdf)

Broad Approaches . Institutions . Societal Approaches

Organizational Tools . Nation State Tools . International Tools . Social Warnings

National Roles . International Roles . Special Interests

Emotions.html . Overall Reaction

Kindle Books
System Engineering for the Planet
Sustainable Development Possible with Creative System Engineering

Project 2025

Mandate For Leadership The Conservative Promise, Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT

by The Heritage Foundation.

From Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is the conservative movement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.

On April 21, 2023 the Heritage Foundation released: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise ISBN 978-0-89195-174-2. There are PDF files available on the Internet. A PDF version was downloaded from https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf.

We analyzed this policy document and the results are as follows. Scroll through the reports to find the relevant findings. The GDA related links will not work unless GDA is installed on the computer. The analysis related links will work so that the reader can jump between sections of the document. To download and install GDA see: Download but you do not need to install GDA to see our analysis reports below.

Reading Level

Project-2025_MFL-03-Reading-Level.html#analysisresults

• The reading level is at the 8th grade level. This is appropriate. Typically reading levels range from the 5th grade level for the general population to the 10th grade level for more technical documents.

For the remaining reports, when the links next to the mined object are selected the full document is opened and the reader is taken to the text object. The reader can then scroll up and down to get the full context of the mined object. The reports also show the section number prior to the mined object so that the reader has addition context. The reports are as is, the mined text is from the actual policy document. The analysts reviewing these reports must perform their own fact checking and make their own observations and conclusions.

With each report there are some findings provided as a small sampling. Analysts must go into the reports to see the full depth and breadth of the minded results.

Retirees

Project-2025_MFL-17-Retirees.html#analysisresults - a small sampling

• 10. GDA-5327 HHS is home to Medicare and Medicaid, the principal drivers of our $31 trillion national debt.
• 11. GDA-5330 The first year that Medicare spending was visible on the books was 1967.
• 12. GDA-5331 From that point on through 2020 --- according to the American Main Street Initiative's analysis of official federal tallies --- Medicare and Medicaid combined cost $17.8 trillion, while our combined federal deficits over that same span were $17.9 trillion.
• 13. GDA-5332 In essence, our deficit problem is a Medicare and Medicaid problem.
• 30. GDA-8366 Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option.
• 58. GDA-12376 In addition, intermediate tax reform should repeal all tax increases that were passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act,19 including the book minimum tax, the stock buyback excise tax, the coal excise tax, the reinstated Superfund tax, and excise taxes on drug manufacturers to compel them to comply with Medicare price controls.

Government Changes

In hindsight each of these should have been standalone services so that the word counts were consistent with the actual topic of interest.

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-1-Government-Changes-Eliminate-Repeal.html#analysisresults - a small sampling

• 8. GDA-1214 In organizing (by means of Presidential Directive31) an NSC staff that is more responsive and aligned with the President's goals and empowered to implement them, the NSA should immediately evaluate and eliminate directorates that are not aligned with the President's agenda and replace them with new directorates as appropriate that can drive implementation of the President's signature national security priorities.
• 9. GDA-1370 The President should issue an executive order establishing a Senior Advisor to coordinate the policy development and implementation of relevant energy and environment policy by officials across the EOP (for example, the policy staff of the NSC, NEC, DPC, CEQ, and OSTP) and abolishing the existing Office of Domestic Climate Policy.
• 10. GDA-1374 The President should eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), which is cochaired by the OSTP, OMB, and CEA, and by executive order should end the use of SCC analysis.
• 81. GDA-5610 The USDA should work with Congress to repeal the federal labeling law, while maintaining federal preemption, and stress that voluntary labeling is allowed.
• 87. GDA-5991 Burke MISSION Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
• 113. GDA-6719 The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all DOE applied energy programs including OE (except perhaps those related to basic science for new energy technology).
• 114. GDA-6726 The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate nonessential funding of commercial technology and deployment.
• 118. GDA-6752 The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all of DOE's applied energy programs, including those in FECM (with the possible exception of those that are related to basic science for new energy technology).
• 122. GDA-6774 The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all of DOE's applied energy programs, including those in EERE (with the possible exception of those that are related to basic science for new energy technology).
• 125. GDA-6785 l Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances.
• 176. GDA-8646 OFFICE OF HEAD START (OHS) l Eliminate the Head Start program.
• 187. GDA-9175 Repeal climate change initiatives and spending in the department's budget request.
• 217. GDA-10915 Congress should enact the Davis-Bacon Repeal Act and allow markets to determine market wages.
• 230. GDA-11816 Even more ambitiously, Winfree suggests that the next Administration should think about proposing legislation that would "effectively abolish" the Federal Reserve and replace it with "free banking," whereby "neither interest rates nor the supply of money" would be "controlled by government."
• 233. GDA-11829 Office of Patents, Trademarks, and Standards, with all non-mission-critical research functions eliminated or moved to other, more focused, federal agencies; and l The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-2-3-Government-Changes-Civil-Service-Privatize.html#analysisresults - a small sampling

• 27. GDA-1818 That progressive system has broken down in our time, and the only real solution is for the national government to do less: to decentralize and privatize as much as possible and then ensure that the remaining bureaucracy is managed effectively along the lines of the enduring principles set out in detail here.
• 30. GDA-2684 l The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized.
• 31. GDA-3088 Until it is privatized, TSA should be treated as a national security provider, and its workforce should be deunionized immediately.
• 32. GDA-3089 TSA could privatize the screening function by expanding the current Screening Partnership Program (SPP) to all airports.
• 51. GDA-11829 Office of Patents, Trademarks, and Standards, with all non-mission-critical research functions eliminated or moved to other, more focused, federal agencies; and l The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories. 

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-4-Government-Changes-President.html#analysisresults - a small sampling

• 87. GDA-708 In order to carry out the President's desires, political appointees must be given the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the federal government's obstructionist Human Resources departments.
• 127. GDA-814 When a new President takes office, he will need to decide expeditiously how to handle any major ongoing litigation or other pending legal matters that might present a challenge to his agenda.
• 128. GDA-815 To offer guidance, the White House Counsel must get up to speed as quickly as possible on all significant ongoing legal challenges across the executive branch that might affect the new Administration's policy agenda and must be prepared at the outset of the Administration to present recommendations to the President, including recommendations for reconsidering or reversing positions of the previous Administration in any significant litigation.
• 131. GDA-823 Instead of choosing a specialist, the President should hire a counsel with extensive experience with a wide range of complex legal subjects. .
• 132. GDA-824 Moreover, while a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best one will be above all loyal to the President and the Constitution.
• 231. GDA-1090 Sadly, however, a President today assumes office to find a sprawling federal bureaucracy that all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences --- or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly "woke" faction of the country.
• 259. GDA-1161 It is vital that the Director and his political staff, not the careerists, drive these offices in pursuit of the President's actual priorities and not let them set their own agenda based on the wishes of the sprawling "good government" management community in and outside of government.
• 260. GDA-1162 Many Directors do not properly prioritize the management portfolio, leaving it to the Deputy for Management, but such neglect creates purposeless bureaucracy that impedes a President's agenda --- an "M Train to Nowhere." OFPP.
• 262. GDA-1171 The Director should instruct OPPM to establish annual performance goals and review processes for agencies that reflect the President's agenda.
• 263. GDA-1172 OPPM should also be part of the President's strategy to set and enforce sensible policies and practices for the federal workforce.
• 285. GDA-1225 The accountable senior officials should be empowered to identify, recruit, clear, and hire staff who are aligned with and willing to shepherd the President's national security priorities.
• 286. GDA-1230 Both should also conduct reviews of operational war plans and global force planning and allocations with the Secretary of Defense to align them with presidential priorities and review all key policy and guidance intended for implementation by the heads of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Intelligence Community before they are authorized for distribution.
• 287. GDA-1234 For instance, the NSA should return all nonessential detailees to their home agencies on their first day in office so that the new Administration can proceed efficiently without the personnel land mines left by the previous stewards and as soon as possible should replace all essential detailees with staff aligned to the new President's priorities.
• 288. GDA-1236 In the end, change requires intervention, and the NSC staff should be appropriately recruited, manned, and empowered to achieve the President's national security and foreign policy objectives and maintain robust policy analysis and discussion while minimizing resistance from those who have an agenda or who jealously guard their resources and autonomy at the expense of national security and sound policy development.
• 289. GDA-1238 Additionally, the White House Chief of Staff and NSA must ensure that the NSC is functioning in tandem with the rest of the White House staff to benefit from the best strategic thinking of the President's top advisers.
• 290. GDA-1239 History shows that an unsupervised NSC staff can stray from its statutory role and adversely affect a President and his policies.
• 331. GDA-1344 Under President Trump, IOTF priorities were artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), advanced communications/5G, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology.
• 332. GDA-1345 Under President Biden, this list has been expanded to include advanced materials, robotics, battery technology, cybersecurity, green products and clean technology, plant genetics and agricultural technologies, nanotechnology, and semiconductor and microelectronics technologies.

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-5-8-Government-Changes-Communist-Marxist-NAZI-Fascist-Socialist.html#analysisresults - See report

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-9-10-Government-Changes-Sustainability-Climate-Change.html#analysisresults

• 9. GDA-1231 The NSC should rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense matters, including climate change, critical race theory, manufactured extremism, and other polarizing policies that weaken our armed forces and discourage our nation's finest men and women from enlisting to serve in defense of our liberty.
• 13. GDA-1374 The President should eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), which is cochaired by the OSTP, OMB, and CEA, and by executive order should end the use of SCC analysis.
• 42. GDA-6633 4. Office of Fossil Energy (Assistant Secretary, with Carbon Management deleted from its title and purpose. .
• 43. GDA-6643 FEMP should stop using taxpayer dollars to force the purchase of more expensive and less reliable energy resources in the name of combating climate change. .
• 50. GDA-6767 Needed Reforms l End the focus on climate change and green subsidies.
• 116. GDA-12304 And then there are rising challenges, like climate change, which, left unchecked, will undermine every aspect of our economy from supply chains to the financial system.3 Treasury's mission drift into a "woke" agenda, is exemplified in a comparison of Domestic Finance's changed responsibilities from 2015 to 2023: [2015] Domestic Finance works to preserve confidence in the U.S.
• 120. GDA-12580 The next Administration should eliminate the Climate Hub Office and withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prosperity of the United States.
• 127. GDA-13485 Over time, that research results in some breakthrough technologies, but when it is time to put these breakthroughs into practice by manufacturing goods and services, much of the necessary productive capacity is offshore.63 For many technologies, the American economy lacks the capacity to "scale up" innovations that might not be immediately profitable.

Part of the rejection of the climate change policies from the previous adminstration is attributed to costs and the potential negative impacts to the U.S. economy. This is suggesed by the following, also found in Project 2025. This was not mined from the document. It was found as a mininig artifact GDA-13485 without context and located when the mining link was selected.

• GDA-13478 . Domestic Manufacturing and Small Business.
• GDA-13479 . Small businesses in the manufacturing sector face shortfalls in access to capital.61 As manufacturing employment, domestic business investment, and non-information technology output have declined,62 expectations for market returns and the capital available to small manufacturing enterprises have diminished.
• GDA-13480 . This is especially true for capital-intensive sectors like transportation and energy that require large up-front investments and relatively lower-margin sectors like plastics, textiles, furniture, and agriculture.
• GDA-13481 . Yet these industries and others like them traditionally have been the backbone of American manufacturing employment.
• GDA-13482 . They also are sources of self-sufficiency and resilience at a time when global supply chains are increasingly uncertain.
• GDA-13483 . The public policy problems that are caused by declining small manufacturing are especially acute when it comes to the production of advanced technologies.
• GDA-13484 . Other agencies and programs invest immense taxpayer resources in basic science and research.
• GDA-13485 . Over time, that research results in some breakthrough technologies, but when it is time to put these breakthroughs into practice by manufacturing goods and services, much of the necessary productive capacity is offshore.63 For many technologies, the American economy lacks the capacity to "scale up"e innovations that might not be immediately profitable.
• GDA-13486 . Instead, those technologies are put into practice abroad.
• GDA-13487 . In this way, foreign companies and foreign productive sites buy and implement taxpayer-funded American technologies.
• GDA-13488 . The SBA's existing programs should be reformed to expand the private market for capital in small-manufacturer expansion.
• GDA-13489 . The next Administration should: l Ask Congress to make available a category of Section 7(a) loans with a larger available principal that is used to finance manufacturing facility construction and equipment upgrading.
• GDA-13490 . The proposed SBA Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2019, for example, would have increased the maximum loan principal to $50 million for advanced manufacturing construction and upgrading.64 The Section 7(a) loan program operates through private lenders and guarantees a portion of private-sector loans made to qualifying small businesses.
• GDA-13491 . The maximum principal available is $5 million, but small businesses in capital-intensive sectors require significantly larger amounts of capital to finance up-front capital costs.
• GDA-13492 . l Reform the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program to refocus its support on small businesses rather than technology startups only.
• GDA-13493 . The SBIC program operates through private venture capital and private equity funds by providing eligible funds with guaranteed debt financing to support investments in small businesses.
• GDA-13494 . However, the program largely duplicates private-sector venture capital to the extent that the sector receiving much of its support is software and information technology, which already receive the lion's share of venture capital investment.65 In addition, Congress should reform the SBIC program to make its financing more favorable to capital-intense investments and small manufacturers.
• GDA-13495 . The Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection, and Schools (HEALS) Act, introduced in 2020,66 and American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, introduced in 2021,67 would allow SBIC to offer longer-term financing to manufacturers and make the program more fiscally sustainable.

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-11-14-Government-Changes-Russia-Ukraine-NATO-China.html#analysisresults - See report

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-15-Government-Changes-Woke-Labeling.html#analysisresults - See report

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-16-Government-Changes-Unions.html#analysisresults - See report

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-17-Government-Changes-Revolution.html#analysisresults - See report

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-18-All-Government-Changes.html#analysisresults - See report

Corporations Deregulation

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-19-Corporations-Deregulation.html#analysisresults - See report

Health

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-20-Health.html#analysisresults - See report

Taxpayer Needs

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-21-Taxpayer-Needs.html#analysisresults - See report

Classism

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-22-Classism.html#analysisresults - See report

Imperatives Needs

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-23-Imperatives-Needs.html#analysisresults - See report

Immigration

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-25-Immigration.html#analysisresults - See report

All Imperatives

Project-2025/Project-2025_MFL-All-Imperatives.html#analysisresults - See report

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